[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Book Club Kit Lending

[Elisabeth Keppler]

This may be off the wall, but might you create a non-holdable
OPAC-invisible shelf location for them?  As long as all the consortium
members were able to handle the shelf location, then all the items in the
"kit" could be shipped to a library and the owning library changed for
them, the location would alert staff to where they could find the books,
you'd get full circulation information, and the books would return to the
current owning library no matter where they are checked back in. Would that
work?

Lise

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Blake Henderson <blake at mobiusconsortium.org>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> -Blake-
> Conducting Magic
> MOBIUS
> 573-234-4513
> 877-312-3517
>
>


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Lise Keppler, Technical Services
Forsyth County Public Library
2851 Fairlawn Dr
Winston Salem NC  27106
336-703-3048
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