[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fulfillment Prioritization

[Hardy, Elaine]

That was my misunderstanding, so glad for the clarification. Rather ask
now than after it's been developed...

Then my pretend-it's-magic request -- when an in-transit item is
re-directed, have a message pop up (with twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one) that explains that the original hold was cancelled because a
local hold was found to fill it.


Elaine
 
 
J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
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Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
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[mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
Thomas Berezansky
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 8:34 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fulfillment Prioritization

I think you have the "hijack" backwards. You are assuming that an in
transit hold will be hijacked and pulled back to the home library. In
fact, the only "hijacked" transits will be "Patron A has a hold with a
copy in transit, we will ignore the in transit copy and put this copy we
are checking in on the shelf for them *right now* instead, pushing the
transiting copy off of the hold". No patron will get a copy that was going
to a different patron as a result.

It looks like most of your other concerns on this stem from that initial
misunderstanding, though you are correct that things may go right back
into transit when they show up. That is no different than if a hold is
canceled while in transit, though.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium