Andrew at Bywater did a great blog post on how to set up items to have a quarantine status. One way still shows on the holds to pull list (but has a quarantine shelving location so you could use a report to make it not show those ones) and one way prevents it from showing on the holds list but you have to check everything in a second time to get it out of quarantine: https://bywatersolutions.com/education/set-items-to-quarantine-status-upon-return
Our library is quarantining everything before checking it in so we haven't used it, but I know a number of libraries are using one of these methods. Lisette Scheer System Administration Assistant - Latah County Library District [email protected] ---- Original Message ---- From: "Elaine Bradtke" <[email protected]> Sent: 9/16/2020 10:15:13 AM To: "Mark Alexander" <[email protected]> Cc: "koha" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Koha] Holds and quarantine 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 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
