Chaotic shelving
Chute
Discard
Display
Event
Exhibition
Floating items (shared collections)
Grouped shelving
Holds
Holds shelf / Hold shelf
Home
Illegally Placed
Intelligent Materials Management System (IMMS)
Library Management System (LMS)
Location
Lyngsoe Sorter Controller (LSC)
Media Hotel
Mixed Content
Order
Ordered (as an item status)
Picked
Picking
Pick List
Rotation order
Sorting Point/Sort Point
Taken for hold
Transport Units
What is listed in IMMS about…
Lyngsoe's list of IMMS Concepts
Any Location that does not hold a defined range of items. Holds shelves, display shelves, and OPS shelves are all examples of chaotic shelving.
Assigns items to Transport Units. Chutes may be physical or virtual. They cannot contain items, only route them.
Remove an item from a list or grouping. The item is still part of the collection and may continue to circulate.
NOTE: This is different from the meaning in Symphony, in which the item is removed fully from the collection.
A Location (shelf or other space) that contains a temporary collection of items or a collection of dedicated Exhibition items. These items show as Available in the catalog, and will come up on Pick Lists.
An item transaction recorded in IMMS, viewable in the Web Client under the item’s History.
A curated list of items. Exhibition items will be placed on Displays.
Floating items (shared collections)
Floating items do not belong to any one branch, but instead can live on the shelf at any branch. A floating item may stay at the branch it was returned to, or it may travel to another branch. This depends on a number of factors (including fullness of shelves and number of copies available).
A Location that contains one or more defined item ranges. Most branch shelving (with the exception of Displays and Hold shelves) is grouped shelving.
Hold orders that are received from Symphony. Ordered items that are on the shelf at a branch will show up on that branch’s Pick List. Once a hold has been triggered for a patron, IMMS refers to the item as 'Taken for a Hold'.
A Location that contains all of a branch’s holds that are ready for pickup. All of the bays in a branch’s Holds shelf are defined in IMMS as part of that Location.
An item’s defined grouping. This is where it would be placed using the ‘Shelve items’ wizard.
The item is in an ineligible or undefined Location. This status is generally seen on items that were last updated prior to IMMS implementation.
Intelligent Materials Management System (IMMS)
Software that allows materials to be tracked more precisely within locations and can automatically assign materials to be equitably distributed between locations.
Library Management System (LMS)
The database we use for materials (Symphony). More commonly referred to as an integrated library system (ILS).
A physical space where items are kept when they are not checked out. Examples include (but are not limited to) hold shelves and display shelves.
Note: A 'Location' in IMMS is different from a 'location' that is a physical building.
Lyngsoe Sorter Controller (LSC)
Software to program an Automated Materials Handling (AMH) sorter.
A site where materials are stored until they are needed. These materials are not physically browsable by the public. The Operations Center (OPS) is MCL’s Media Hotel.
A combination of Holds and non-Holds, usually in the context of items in/on a Transport Unit. A Transport Unit cannot be shelved until it contains only one type of content. See the IMMS Workflow "Resolving problems with transport units" for more details.
An indication that an item needs to be picked.
The item is on a Pick List.
An item from a Pick List that has been pulled and scanned, and is on its way to fill an Order.
A list of items to be pulled from the shelves.
NOTE: This is different from Symphony, in which 'Pick List' only applies to holds.
Types of Pick List include (but are not limited to):
- Automatic replenishment (ISM only)
- Error correction order
- Exhibition order
- Hold
- Manual list order
- Call number change (start date TBD)
- Missing list (start date TBD)
- Other lists as needed
- Manual move order
- Rotation order
- Weeding
Pulling items from a Pick List.
An automatically generated Pick List that moves stale items from one branch to another. 10 items per day appear on the list; whether or not they are picked, IMMS will generate a new list of 10 items the next day.
A nexus where items are sorted through chutes for various destinations. Generally has one or more workstations (AMH or Symphony) attached.
Most commonly crates and carts/trucks. Used to move materials between branches, Sort Points, and/or Locations.
Your best friend in the IMMS Mobile App. Displays the current status/Location/destination of an Item/Transport Unit/Chute.