Chris Caughey wrote:
I’m wondering two things:
1. How do other Evergreen users think about the categories of
“Missing” and “Lost”? At what point do you mark an item as either one?
We consider missing, something that appears to be Available, but can't
actually be located.
Lost is an item that was checked out and never returned.
We use the overdue notice generator (see link), with an added call to
open-ils.circ.circulation.set_lost. This automagically sets the item to
lost when it's x days overdue, and adds a bill for the value of the item
to the patron's record.
http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/branches/rel_1_2_4/Evergreen/src/support-scripts/eg_gen_overdue.pl
2. Is the category of “Lost” only available from within an individual
patron’s account? Also, the only category that seems to have survived
our data migration was “available.” Anything that was marked “Missing”
or “Lost” now shows (after the data migration) that it has been
checked in and is available. We don’t seem be able to set back dates
(e.g., a book was checked out by Patron X back in November and still
hasn’t been returned; or, our previous ils shows that Item Y was
marked “Lost” on 5/10/08). Any advice?
The call I noted above takes an auth token, and the item barcode. It
would be relatively simple to process through a list of items and set
them to Lost.
Thanks,
Chris Caughey, M.Div.
/Library Assistant/
/Adjunct Professor/
WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY
333 Sunset Blvd.
Rocklin, CA 95765
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