Take this with a grain of salt, as we rarely circulate material. . . You could create an account called quarantine - ignore the holds for the first checkin, and check it out to quarantine, and then when it's ready to go back into circulation check it in and 'confirm'. I know, extra steps. Elaine VWML <https://vwml.org>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:16 PM Mark Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've tried to search my Koha mailing list archives, and studied the > 19.05 manual for a solution to the following problem, but I'm either > overlooking something or the problem hasn't been discussed. > > Our little library has a pandemic protocol where books that are returned > (in > a drop box) are checked in twice a week, then put on a special quarantine > table. > On Sunday a volunteer comes in and sanitizes the books. Then they can be > checked out again. > > The problem has to do with holds. When a book with a hold is checked in, > the librarian has to respond to Koha's popup in one of two ways: press > "Confirm", > or press "Ignore": > > 1. If the librarian presses "Confirm", then the patron will eventually > notice when they log into to their account that the book is ready > for pickup, when in fact it is on the quarantine table and is NOT > ready. > > 2. If the librian presses "Ignore", then the patron won't get notified > that their book is ready for pickup. Instead, their hold is > still pending and the book is seen as available in the catalog. > > Either choice isn't quite right. What we'd like to have happen is for > the patron somehow to be informed that their book is ready for pickup > not when it's checked in, but AFTER it's gone through the quarantine > process, which takes an unpredictable amount of time. > > I don't see how the CART shelving location functionality and cron job > can deal with both holds and unpredictable quarantine times. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas! > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
