[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

[Joan Kranich]

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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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
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Boston, MA 02215

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