[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

[Yamil Suarez]

Kathy,

I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the tip on the functionality
that allows EG to suppress transits between different OUs. ( The original bug
is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/850461 )

You have greatly improved our lives here at Berklee.

Take care,
Yamil


On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Joan Kranich <jkranich at cwmars.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jkranich at cwmars.org');>> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At C/W MARS along with reserve items at academic libraries we have many
> public libraries set with hourly loans for items such as laptops and
> tablets.  I create an hourly circulation policy based on Circulation
> Modifier and usually with an hourly fine and maximum fine.
>
> I have not found a good way to notify staff that the hourly loan is due or
> overdue.
>
> For some libraries Holds are allowed with the Hold policy Transit Range
> set to fill Holds only to be picked up at the owning library.  The items do
> not transit.  In our setup Transit Range is set to Library but this will
> depend on how your org units are set.
>
> Aside for hourly loans, I'll mention that we also have two org units in a
> physical building.  I use the Library Setting Suppress Non-Hold Transits
> Group to prevent the checkins from going in transit within the same
> building.
>
> Joan
>
> Joan Kranich
> C/W MARS Member Services
> jkranich at cwmars.org
> 508-755-3323 ext. 21
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Open-ils-general [mailto:
> open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Yamil
> Suarez
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:39 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items
>
> Carol,
>
> We use hourly circulation for "class reserve" materials as well as for
> laptop chargers, which should only go out for 2 hours and cannot be renewed
> or placed on hold.
>
> Here are more or less the steps that we took to create this rule with
> ESI's guidance...
>
> 1) We created a circ duration rule for the hourly period, in our case
> 2 hours with 0 renewals. With the short/normal/extended values set to
> 2 hours.
>
> 2) We created a new circulation modifier for the items that will circulate
> for two hours, though this may be optional depending on your set up. We
> called ours "rbook" for reserve books.
>
> 3) We created a new org unit to own our reserve collection, in essence a
> library within our main library that share the same physical space/st
> address. I forget the details now, but I believe this was done so that the
> we could have overdue notices send out at an hourly interval for reserve
> items that live in the reserve OU. I believe if we did not create that
> reserve OU then our overdue notices would only run once a day (as the main
> library OU needed), as opposed to hourly.
> Then again, I may be remembering things incorrectly.
>
> 4) Finally we created a circ policy that referred to the "rbooks" circ mo
> and the reserve OU and assigned a circ duration of 2 hours. I also from the
> circ policy set a 1 hour grace period.
>
> I hope this makes sense, and I wonder how others have solved the same
> request. One thing I don't like is that we have two OUs living inside of a
> physical library. Therefore I have to keep circ machines set up for the
> both OUs to avoid having items being put on transit all the time.
>
> Good luck,
> Yamil
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Carol Yarrison <cyarrison at biblio.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi all, we have a new library in our consortium who would like to
> > circulate items reserved for projects and chargers for iPad/iPhone on an
> hourly basis.
> > Do any of you have such a circulatoin policy and how do you handle it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Carol
> >
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> > Carol Yarrison
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>
> Yamil Suarez, MCS
> Library System Administrator/Developer
>
> Stan Getz Library
> Berklee College of Music
> 1140 Boylston St
> Boston, MA 02215
>
> ysuarez at berklee.edu
> 617-747-2617
>


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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library Systems Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617
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