[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Two of the MassLNC partners use hourly loan rules for reserves 
materials. They may be able to speak more specifically as to how they 
configured their loan rules (I believe both are using circ modifiers as 
Yamil described).

One of the drawbacks to the hourly loan rules is that, if users don't 
return materials by day's end, the hourly fines continue to accrue 
overnight. There is a but report on this at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1064679.

> 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.
Yamil, they don't use separate OUs handling reserves material, but I did 
want to point out that there is functionality that allows you to 
suppress transits between different OUs. The original bug is at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/850461. I haven't looked at it 
in a while and don't recall exactly where the setting is to suppress the 
transits.

Kathy

On 01/14/2016 12:38 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
> 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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>
>

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