April 2025
Quick Facts
- As of July 1, 2024, new library materials (including books and media) no longer include the location code of the “owning” library on the spine label.
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Items on the shelf do not need to match their current location. Spine labels on existing items do not have to be updated.
Symphony Building Locations and Other Codes
Printable version of Symphony building locations, item, and patron codes.
| Code | Symphony location |
Interoffice address |
Description |
| ALB | X | X | Albina Library |
| BHP | X | Hawthorne Holds Pickup Location (YTEMPB is the Symphony code) | |
| BMT | X | X | Belmont Library |
| CAP | X | X | Capitol Hill Library |
| CEN | X | X | Central Library |
| CON/CEN | X | Contact Center | |
| DGT | X | Digital | |
| ECL | X | X | East County Library |
| FRV | X | X | Fairview Library |
| GRG | X | X | Gregory Heights Library |
| GSM | X | X | Gresham Library |
| HDL | X | X | Hillsdale Library |
| HGT | X | X | Holgate Library |
| HGTLOCKER | X | X | Holgate lockers |
| HWD | X | X | Hollywood Library |
| ISM | X | Items shelved at the Operations Center (OPS is the interoffice address) | |
| KEN | X | X | Kenton Library |
| LOS | X | Library Outreach | |
| X | Mail $3.00 | ||
| MID | X | X | Midland Library |
| NPO | X | X | North Portland Library |
| NRW | X | X | Northwest Library |
| OPS | X | Operations Center (ISM is the Symphony code) | |
| OPSTAFF | X | Staff hold pickup location at the Operations Center | |
| PTG | X | Pettygrove | |
| ROC | X | X | Rockwood Library |
| ROCLOCKER | X | Rockwood Lockers | |
| SEL | X | X | Sellwood Library |
| SJO | X | St Johns Hold Pickup (XFB is the Symphony code) | |
| STJ | X | X | St Johns Library |
| STORAGE | X | Storage (closed libraries) | |
| STORAGE-IM | X | Storage- Iron Mountain (periodicals stored at Iron Mountain) | |
| STORAGE-S | X | Storage - shadowed (unavailable items do not display in My MCL) | |
| TECH | X | Technical Services | |
| TRANSFER | X | Items transferred to open libraries during closures (spine labels will not change) | |
| TRT | X | X | Troutdale Library |
| VIRTUAL | X | Community Information: Contact Center and Reference, Information, and Content (RIC) | |
| WLS | X | Wilson Room | |
| WOD | X | X | Woodstock Library |
| WODLOCKER | X | Woodstock lockers | |
| XFB | X | St Johns Hold Pickup (SJO is the interoffice address) | |
| XSTORAGE | X | Unavailable - packed items before they are unpacked at the Operations Center | |
| YTEMPB | X | Hawthorne Holds Pickup Location (BHP is the interoffice address) | |
| ZYS | X | System default/something is wrong |