[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Book Club Kit Lending

[Janet Brown]

Blake,

We have been circulating Book Club Kits for over a year now. We place an actual MARC record in the system but add the number of books in the kit to the physical description.  We require that one person from a book club check out the whole kit and be responsible for bringing them all back together.  We also give them an extended due date so they have time to distribute, read and discuss the books before they bring them back.  There is a laminated card with the barcode attached for each kit which we file away while the kit is checked out.  

You can search for all of the kits by doing a keyword search 'book club kit' or I've given you a couple direct links.

http://burlington.skagitcat.org/eg/opac/record/183344
http://burlington.skagitcat.org/eg/opac/record/182515

It's worked well for us, but then we're a smallish library. 

Janet Brown
SysAdmin/Circ Supervisor
 
Burlington Public Library
820 E Washington Ave
Burlington WA  98233
360-755-0760
janetb at burlingtonwa.gov 


-----Original Message-----
From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Blake Henderson
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 2:45 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Book Club Kit Lending

All,

We had a consortium issue we are trying to figure out how to handle. 
Several of our library systems would like to share the "Book Club in a kit" set of books. The idea is to keep the set of books together while they are circulated for Book clubs around the consortium. The best idea we have would be to create a dummy copy in the database that represents the whole set of (x) copies. The call number would describe the title and quantity. The dummy copy would be attached to a bib called "Book Club Kit" with some very basic information in the MARC. The consortium staff members would "know" (with training) that is the place to go for attaching these kits and where to go in order to place a hold.

Once a staff member places the copy level hold on the dummy barcode. 
This is where we have some questions. We would like to circ each book to each patron for tracking purposes. Of course, the system didn't track each copy in the transit table. Once they arrive at the destination library, they would proceed to check out each copy to each patron. 
Should the copies have their circulation library changed first? Maybe there is a better way to handle it?

Does anyone else have a similar scenario?

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