[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Making loan rules clear to staff and patrons

[Frasur, Ruth]

Ben,

This is a little sideways from exactly what you described, but Evergreen Indiana maintains a circulation matrix that’s easily available to member library staff to use in a variety of ways.  I’m including the link.

https://blog.evergreen.lib.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Evergreen-Indiana-Circulation-Matrix.pdf

Ruth Frasur
Evergreen Support and Development Administrator
Indiana State Library
140 N Senate Ave
Indianapolis, IN  46204
(317) 460-7556

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When patrons view an item in the OPAC they have no way of knowing what the loan rules are (loan duration, number of renewals, etc.) And too often when staff view a record in the staff client they also cannot figure out what the rules are.

I know that circulation rules can be complicated with many exceptions and conditions, but at least in some libraries they are often quite simple and it would be so, so helpful for staff and patrons to have access to this information.

How realistic would it be to create a human readable description of the circulation rules on an item by item basis? I would love to see this available from the Record Summary/Item Detail View page, and as something available optionally via a setting as a mouseover or link from the holdings list in the OPAC.

Also, for folks more familiar with Launchpad than me, is it appropriate to submit this as a wishlist item? Or is it important to have a more flesh out idea of how it would work first?

Thanks!

Benjamin Kalish
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