2012/1/16 Linda Jansova <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > We have come across a probably more or less country-specific issue: > > In Jabok Library, reference books (i.e., books which cannot be checked out > and can only be read in the library) don't share the same copy location (as > often, though probably not always, do reference books in US libraries). > Rather, the books in Jabok Library are dispersed throughout the library. A > typical example would five copies of the book - four of them could be > checked out and one of them could not be. All five copies would be > physically located on the very same shelf - distinguished by a spine label > so that the user immediately sees whether he or she is able to check out the > particular copy. > > When it comes to Evergreen (we are currently using version 2.0.9), would you > recommend creating a new copy status (in Server Administration -> Copy > statuses) entitled (in English) say "Reference" which would be visible in > the OPAC and one could not place holds on it? What we need is to make it > more visible for the user to see whether a particular copy is a "usual" copy > which could be checked out whether it is a reference book... In case we use > the copy status as indicated, we (and the users of course) can conveniently > see the status below the record of the title... > > Or perhaps an entirely different solution would be better in this case? >
There's a Reference flag that can be set on a per-copy basis, and can be used to disallow holds and circulations. HTH, -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
