[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] grace period and reserve materials

[Cynthia Williamson]

I hit send just as I saw Dan's message landing .... running every 5 minutes
seems to be ok with our system.  Robert can chime in if I'm wrong but I
don't think we've had any troubles.
Cynthia
Mohawk College Library
Hamilton ON

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:01:55PM -0500, Gordana Vitez wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a question re: hourly loan materials, like reserves, that
> > accrue fines at an hourly rate. How are other libraries dealing with
> > the grace period for these hourly loans? Ideally, we'd like to see
> > fines charged as soon as the item is overdue. I realize this seems
> > like a really ogre-ly thing to want, but we need to get reserves back
> > in a timely manner for the next person.
> >
> > Is there a setting I can play with to remove the grace period on
> > reserve items only?
>
> I think you need to look at least two things:
>
> 1) Admin -> Server Administration -> Circulation Recurring Fine Rules &
> edit the "Grace Period" column of the rule(s) that are applied to your
> reserve items.
>
> 2) Run the fine_generator script (via cron) on a much more frequent
> basis. I think the default recommended time frame is daily, but ours
> runs every 15 minutes. (We might need to look at optimizing the script
> if we want it to run every minute... haven't tried going that far!)
>
>


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