My personal view is that the status should still go to Available, period.
However, I could see assigning a field that overrides for display
purposes in the OPAC. A table of such values could include a "Always
or just when Available" flag, and doing something like %s in the name
could inject the real status name when always replacing.
Thus you could end up with "Available" replaced by "Walk In Loan" or
have the status say "Walk In Loan - %s" to get things like "Walk In
Loan - Available" and "Walk In Loan - Checked Out".
This also removes the need for fighting with overrides on the status
at checkout, as the real status isn't a custom one, and prevents us
from having to change reshelving code because it would still be
pushing things to "Available".
Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Tim Spindler <tspind...@cwmars.org>:
I'm not sure but I think there are two ways the interface could work (and
I could envision both options being available).
- A flag in the copy record that indicates the status is essentially
"sticky" and return after reshelving to the status once it is checked in.
- Another field where the status itself is marked as sticky.
In other case, if status is meant to be temporary as you suggest, it
wouldn't retain that status. The cases below are how some of our
libraries want to use it now. I think the best example may be where a
library is using Walkin Loan to clearly identify to their patrons that the
item is non-holdable but there as a courtesy for those patrons who come to
the library to get an item rather than using the holds system.
Tim
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Hardy, Elaine <eha...@georgialibraries.org
wrote:
Under use case #2, how would you then configure the system so that you
could easily remove the item from storage to available in a case where
storage is a temporary status?****
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*Elaine*****
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PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Ste 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
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*From:* open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:
open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim
Spindler
*Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2013 2:52 PM
*To:* Evergreen Development Discussion List; Evergreen Discussion Group
*Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Possible Development Idea****
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We are in the process at prioritizing some development projects for C/W
MARS. I have started to write some specs for one project and wanted to
check with the community to see how others felt. A number of our
libraries liked this functionality coming from an Innovative system. Tom
Berezansky questioned it because it is counter to the purpose of status and
he was arguing (and correct me where I am wrong) that a library should be
using shelf location and not a status for this purpose. However, I can
imagine instances where you might want different statuses for the same
shelf location.****
*Restore Original Status of Item after Checkin*****
*Idea:* Restore proper status when an item is checked in (Reference
Development Ideas #30)****
*Description: *Copies checked out in Evergreen have the status changed to
Checked Out. There is no mechanism to retain the status of the item prior
to checkout. When the item is returned, the checkout status defaults to
Available. ****
*Expected Functionality*****
· An item is checked out and the status changes to "Checked Out"
as it does in the current system (2.3.1)****
· The item is checked in and returns to the status prior to the
above checkout while still using the interim status of reshelving.****
· Some statuses such as "lost", "repair" and "missing" should be
allowed to be permanently removed.****
*Use Case 1*****
Joe Circulation has a student who brings to the desk an item that was on
course reserves with the status of course reserves. The item is checked
out and the status of the item changes to "Checked Out" with a a loan
period of 3 hours. The student returns the item and it is checked in and
the status returns to "Reshelving" and then"Reserves".****
*Use Case 2*****
We have many books with the status of storage. When the book gets checked
out, we are asked if we want to force the action, which is to check it out.
Of course, when it is returned, the status of storage is gone. When checked
back in, the status would return to "Reshelving" and then "Storage."****
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Tim Spindler****
Manager of Library Applications****
tspind...@cwmars.org****
508-755-3323 x20
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C/W MARS, Inc.****
67 Millbrook St, Suite 201****
Worcester, MA 01606
http://www.cwmars.org****
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