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

[David J. Fiander]

Bill Erickson wrote:

> As an aside, I'm not terribly concerned about slow renedering of 
> checked-out items for these "special" accounts, since that seems more 
> like a job for reports.  I am concerned about slowness with rendering 
> real patrons with lots of closed transactions on their account, though, 
> admittedly, it will take quite a while to even get hundereds (much less 
> thousands) of closed transactions on an account.

That depends on what a "transaction" is.  If a transaction is a single book 
checkout/return, then it might happen faster than you think.

Assuming mom takes her three kids to the library every two weeks, and the 
kids sign out 3 books each on mom's card, then that's 12 
transactions/month.  It will only take two years to get over 200 
transactions on mom's account.

Now, two years isn't exactly "quite a while", but it's certainly long 
enough for the problem to be dealt with before it becomes a problem.

- David

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David J. Fiander
Digital Services Librarian