[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Limit Sets

[Aubrey Area Library]

Hey Scott,

Basically circulation/hold policies are applied at the circulating library.
If your library does not have a holds limit then your patrons are free to
place as many holds as they wish, both at your library and other libraries
in you resource sharing situation. Same with checkout. I am not sure it
there is an option to change this in evergreen or not. Our library is in a
consortium of 13 other libraries and in the beginning decided to let each
others polices dictate checkout limits instead.

I am a bit confused though. If the Circulation library and the Owning
library are the same then are we not talking about one library.

Thanks,
Jordan

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:43 AM, scott.thomas at sparkpa.org <
scott.thomas at sparkpa.org> wrote:

> I have a question about Circulation Limit Sets. I know the policy is
> applied to the Owning Library, but I was wondering how it would work in a
> resource sharing situation. Say Library X has a Circulation Limit of 5 DVDs
> and Library Y has no circulation limits at all. A patron at Library Y
> places a hold on seven DVDs that are fulfilled by Library X and sent to
> Library Y for pickup. Is the patron at Library Y prevented from checking
> out DVD’s 6 and 7 or are Library X’s limits not in force at Library Y even
> though Library X owns the items? Conversely, if a patron at Library X tries
> to check out twelve of Library Y’s DVDs, will they be able to? Let’s
> assume, for the sake of simplicity, that the Circulation Library and the
> Owning Library are the same in all of these items.
>
> Thank you in advance for helping me with this.
>
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> Scott
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> Scott Thomas
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> Executive Director
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