[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best-Hold Selection Sort Order

Pippin, Johnnie johnnie.pippin at ncdcr.gov
Wed Jul 1 16:22:59 EDT 2015


Ben and all,

Thank you for your valuable information.

We have an issue with certain systems having holds placed but looking outward to fulfill the hold within the consortium instead of first searching the available hold within its owning system.

Our configuration for searching placed holds should be as follows:

Hold placed at branch
Search branch, not available
Search System, not available
Search Consortium

It seems that this works some of the time but not always. Proximity is key for what we want accomplished.

Thanks!

-  Johnnie

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   1. Re: Best-Hold Selection Sort Order (Beth Longwell)


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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 10:17:59 -0700
From: Beth Longwell <blongwel at eou.edu>
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best-Hold Selection Sort Order
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Johnnie,

We use it to prioritize hold fulfillment based on the way our courier is set up, hoping to minimize transit time for the patron.

Beth Longwell
Sage Library System

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Michele Morgan <mmorgan at noblenet.org>
wrote:

> Hi Johnnie,
>
> NOBLE implemented "Traditional with Holds Always Go Home" Best-Hold 
> Selection Sort Order systemwide so that items will always travel home 
> if there are any holds for pickup at the owning library.
>
> We actually tweaked it a bit, removing approx and aprox. Since we do 
> not adjust proximity, there's no need to include them.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Michele
>
> --
> Michele M. Morgan, Technical Assistant North of Boston Library 
> Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts mmorgan at noblenet.org
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Johnnie,
>>
>> Bibliomation implemented Best-Hold Selection Sort Order changes for 
>> at least one member library that required a specific approach to 
>> holds that differed from the rest of our consortium.  I described 
>> that use case in more detail in this post to the dev list a few years 
>> ago (
>> http://markmail.org/message/pdksulwazgwzlro4) and that led to the 
>> feature's development too.  Since implementation, we have had no 
>> complaints about hold prioritization for the use case, so I consider 
>> that a "Pro" of "it works for us" with no speakable "Cons" for now.
>>
>> Can you give us a little more information about what potential use 
>> case are you hoping to achieve with the feature?  Are you trying to 
>> raise or prioritize holds for a given subset of libraries?  Is it 
>> based on geography, distance, political alliances?  There are lots of 
>> options and not all may result in optimal or expected outcomes...
>>
>> -- Ben
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Pippin, Johnnie < 
>> johnnie.pippin at ncdcr.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>  Good morning,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> NC Cardinal is reviewing the Best-Hold Selection Sort Order for 
>>> holds placed in our consortium and wanted to gather some information 
>>> from the community before we move forward.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone implemented this process? If currently using, what are 
>>> the pros and cons of the Best-Hold Selecting Sort Order?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are there any major problems to be made aware of when using 
>>> Best-Hold Selecting Sort Order?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -  Johnnie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "*The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him 
>>> absolutely no good*." - Samuel Johnson
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Benjamin Shum
>> Evergreen Systems Manager
>> Bibliomation, Inc.
>> 24 Wooster Ave.
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