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

[Hardy, Elaine]

How long do you wait after placing the hold before you pull the list? For PINES, the holds targeter technically runs every 15 minutes. However, large numbers of holds means it can take much longer than that to run. It may be that you are pulling the list before the item has been targeted for the hold. 

If that is not the case, have you tried establishing shelving locations for the two collections? A "no" anywhere will override a yes. So even if the reference item itself is set to circulate, if the shelving location is no, it should not. Whether it will show up on the holds pull list is something I don't know. 








Elaine 


J. Elaine Hardy 
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Ste 150 
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 

404.235-7128 
404.235-7201, fax 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org/pines 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bas Otting" <b.otting at ppl.nl> 
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:03:54 AM 
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference books for Reading 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 



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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