Viktor Sarge wrote: > Ideas: > * Automatically renew loans serverside when possible. Contact the > patron through snailmail, e-mail or SMS when renewals are no longer > possible and set a few days as grace period. > * Create new rules that guarantees a patron a certain loan period but > allows them to keep the book for as long as they like as long as no > reserves are made. Contact the patron when somebody places a hold on > the title with a ”Others have requested the book, and you now have X > days to return it”.
Our library also wants extended loans, that stop when a hold is placed. Not unlimited though, only up to a maximum loan period. We figured automatic renewals would do the job. I'll start writing a patch for an automatic renewal feature very soon: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Automatic_renewal_RFC Regards Holger _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
