[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Question on Patron Hold Limit

[Terran McCanna]

PINES has a consortium-wide limit of 50, and I believe it works the way
Jordan described.

Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> We here at Bibliomation *think* there is a way in Evergreen to set
> consortially a limit on the total number of hold requests that can be
> placed for patrons.  For instance, we're thinking of restricting it to 5
> total at one time for all patrons.
>
> Has anyone on the list limited the number of total requests?  Can it be
> done for just title requests?  What happens to those patrons that already
> have, say, 30 requests, and we put this into place?  Do they have to wait
> until their requests get down to 4 before another one will go through?
>
> Any information provided on this feature would be greatly appreciated.
> Since we're not even sure if this feature exists, we have no idea how to
> set it.
>
> Thanks!
> Amy
>
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