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

[Joe Atzberger]

It sounds like you are trying to work around exclusion in the pull list by
manipulating other variables.  It would probably be easier to amend the code
that gathers that list.

--Joe

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Bas Otting <b.otting at ppl.nl> wrote:

>  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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