What I found out about the auto-marking overdue item feature: 1) Auto-marking items as lost after specific overdue period is an administrator feature in Evergreen 1.6 2) This feature will also be included in Evergreen 2.0 3) It has been successfully deployed by Evergreen Indiana. 4) My flowchart of the process: http://prlib.org/Blog/OverdueToLost2.JPG (Contact me if it doesn't seem quite right).
How customizable is it? The key variable is the number of overdue days. How customizable should it be? As a general rule, simple is better. Though you want your ILS to support your library's policy, you also have to appreciate that detrimental effect of making software overly complex or deviating drastically from the basic software. Questions? Thoughts? Corrections? George Tuttle (http://www.prlib.org/) Piedmont Regional Library System
