[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Circulation Menu in the Staff Client

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Mike Rylander<mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Laura M.<codegrl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Catherine Buck Morgan wrote:
>>>
>>> Circ people are going to continue to look under the Circ menu to find
>>> patrons... that's the menu they do all their work from. It's a workflow
>>> thing.   It seems to me the Search menu is for the rest of us... :)  I guess
>>> I don't see the problem with more than one access point.
>>
>> This was actually what I was curious about, and was hoping someone would
>> mention.  :)
>>
>> What exactly is the workflow of a circ person? Why would they be searching
>> for a patron only by barcode?
>
> I imagine it would be to bring up the billing interface, or check
> holds or some such ... and having them use "Check Out Items" to do
> those things seems non-intuitive to my non-librarian self.  I don't
> see "Check Out Items" and "Retrieve Patron by Barcode" as duplicate
> functionality, even if they lead to the same place, if that makes
> sense.  For 1.6, I could see removing the Retrieve, since the search
> interface has a barcode search field into which the card can be
> scanned.

Sorry, I should clarify that ... I could see removing the Retrieve
option from the Search menu, since the Search for Patrons contains the
barcode search field, but leave both Check Out Items and Retrieve by
Barcode on the circ menu.  Again, IMNLO (in my non-librarian opinion).

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