[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Circulation Limit Sets

[Jason Stephenson]

Jordan,

You can set the matchpoints up so that the library that owns the item
wins. In that case, the circulation policies and limits of the item
owning library will apply. It's not a simple switch. There's no on-off
option for this. You have to reconfigure the matchpoints.

You can also make things a lot more complicated by having the
machtpoints configured so it works one way for some libraries and the
other way for others.

My advice is pick either the checkout library or owning library wins and
stick to that. Getting everyone to agree can be a challenge.

Jason

On 12/22/2016 01:38 PM, Aubrey Area Library wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org> <scott.thomas at sparkpa.org
> <mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org>> wrote:
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>     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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