[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Limiting patrons

[Lynne Welch]

Dan,

In The Library Corporation's Library.Solution we have an option to set 
"Long Overdue" as a limiting factor.
We can designate a number (we have it set to 21 days overdue) when the 
account enters "Long Overdue"
status and then all future use is blocked until the items are 
returned/paid for/somehow cleared from the
account. This also works with our PC Reservation/Management system 
(CASSIE, by Librarica) to deny
internet use until the account is unblocked.

It would be an option we would consider important in choosing our next ILS.

Lynne,
sorry to be muddying the waters even more, especially since she doesn't 
know *how* it works, just
that it does and that it's very effective for us

Lynne Welch
Herrick Memorial Library
Wellington OH USA

Dan Scott wrote:
> 2009/7/13  <scrlheadlib at mts.net>:
>   
>> Is there a setting somewhere in Evergreen that will stop patrons from
>> borrowing materials beyond the patron expiry date expiry date?
>>     
>
> This certainly isn't the best way long-term way of dealing with the
> problem, and it might not even be the best short-term workaround, but
> we wrote a script that automatically sets the due date of all items to
> the expiry date of the user's account when the due date would
> otherwise be beyond the expiry date. See circ_date_to_expire_date.pl
> at http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/browser/conifer/trunk/tools
>
>   
>> Is there also a setting that stops patrons from borrowing if they have an item that
>> is x days overdue?  Thanks!
>>     
>
> Hmm, I don't think exactly that option exists. You can prevent patrons
> from borrowing once they've reached a fine threshold or a # of overdue
> items threshold. But I still feel like I've only dipped my toe in the
> script-based circulation waters, so maybe something like that is
> easily possible.
>
>