[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Question about putting books on display

[Elizabeth B. Thomsen]

On 1/17/2012 5:22 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote:
> 2 - Add a "temporary" copy location in some fashion. I would go for a
> secondary table saying "after this date, at checkin, switch this copy to
> this location". The copy's location then gets the new location. If you
> use "now" as the date it will switch back as soon as it is checked in
> later, whether it be from a return or otherwise. Using a date in the
> future, such as when the display is to be taken down, allows the system
> to automatically return the copy to the original location when done.

If I understand this correctly, it sounds like exactly what our 
libraries are looking for!  I think this would be especially useful for 
displays where the items come from many different parts of the 
collection.  It's easy enough to scan all the items and change the 
shelving location to "Display" but to revert them is more complicated 
when some are fiction, some nonfiction, some DVDs, etc., all with 
different locations.

And having this work for a date in the future or now would work 
perfectly for the two types of displays we deal with -- ones where the 
items are supposed to return to the display after checkout, and ones 
where they aren't.

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