[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference books forReading Room and not lending

[George Tuttle]

I lost the thread on this discussion. So I will just jump in.

 

It sounds like we have two issues here:

1) Is the software working as designed?

2) What is an effective way of managing a reserve (reading room only)
collection?

 

Does that sound right?

 

George Tuttle

Computer Services Librarian

Piedmont Regional Library System

770-867-2762 x103

770-891-0654 (cell)

770-867-7483 (fax)

gtuttle at prlib.org

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Bas
Otting
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:04 AM
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference books
forReading Room and not lending

 

Hello all,

 

At the Peace Palace Library we have Closed Stacks for all our works which
are either in-house reference material or can be borrowed.

 

Therefore: patrons or staff place a Hold, we need the Pull List for Holds
Requests mechanism for accessing our Closed Stacks and we need a Circulation
Policy rule that tells Evergreen that some works on the Holds Shelf can
actually be borrowed and others can not and are Reading Rooms only.

 

Here is the issue: we can't figure out how to achieve this scenario (out of
the box Evergreen 1.6.0.1): we did not tinker yet with Circulation Policies
or Circ Modifiers but forced  behaviour in the copy editor:

 <http://screencast.com/t/YzY1Yzk3Y2E> http://screencast.com/t/YzY1Yzk3Y2E

 

A copy item that has Circulate "No"  (for in-house only)  is Holdable but
does *not* appear on the Pull List. Dead end.

So: we tried Circulate "Yes" and then "Reference" is "Yes" - but to our
surprise, such an item can be checked out. Oops.

 

Anybody an idea how to tackle this ?

 

We realise Evergreen has its roots in an Open Stacks environment but even
then patrons might inadvertently try to check out an item marked "Reference"
? Really hope there is a solution combinable with a Closed Stacks situation.

 

Kind regards,

 

Bas Otting

Peace Palace Library

http://www.ppl.nl/

Carnegieplein 2

2517 KJ Den Haag

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