[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Discussion on bulk loan procedures/options/suggestions to outreach "patrons"

[Don McMorris]

That sounds like it would work well.  Then again, I'm not sure of the
exact requirements the library may have.  But, the added branch would
lessen the load against a single patron record  and the in-house-use
would give the circulation stats.

<<SNIP for the non-GMAIL Users'>>
> In this case, it's not simply the staff client retrieving 700 rows
> from the DB, it's the middle layer retrieving 700 circulation objects,
> gathering surrounding payment and billing objects, sorting them into
> batches based on due date (using DateTime, which is not a speed demon,
> but is "correct"), retrieving and calculating fines on them, looking
> for items on the holds shelf, etc.  As far as I can tell, the output
> of this doesn't go into a list at all (in fact, there's not a
> populated list on the first patron detail pane displayed by default),
> it is used in the sidebar.  The items out list, however, uses a
> variant of what I described above in order to split the checked out vs
> lost/claims-returned items into separate lists ... so /those/ lists do
> gather everything, I believe.
>
Perhaps a patron type (IE:ILL Agency) could be implemented that
doesn't process some of the middle layer functions (such as fine
processing).
 <snip>
--Don