[OPEN-ILS-DEV] adding library hours of operation to fine accrual

[Thomas Berezansky]

If the hourly checkout is supposed to be returned before the library  
closes I could see the current behavior as an incentive to *not*  
return it late.

In general, though, I think non-daily durations/fines/etc are not  
handled well in the system at this point, so improvement is probably  
welcome.

Though I don't think MVLC has *any* hourly stuff right now to worry about.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Peter Lux <plux at upei.ca>:

> Hi,
> We are interested in looking at some options to make fine generation check
> Library Hours of Operation as well as the current check against the Closed
> Dates. The aim would be for hourly fine items to accrue based on actual
> time that a Library is open on an hourly basis as well as factoring in the
> Closed Dates.
>
> An example would be Laptops checked out on an hourly basis. Currently, the
> still accrue hourly fines over the early morning hours when the library is
> technically closed for business.
>
>  I thought I would post this here first to see if anyone currently has a
> hack for this and to see if others have any interest in this as a
> configurable feature .
>
>
>
> Peter
>
> Robertson Library
> UPEI
>