Kathy, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the tip on the functionality that allows EG to suppress transits between different OUs. ( The original bug is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/850461 )
You have greatly improved our lives here at Berklee. Take care, Yamil On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Joan Kranich <jkran...@cwmars.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jkran...@cwmars.org');>> wrote: > Hi, > > At C/W MARS along with reserve items at academic libraries we have many > public libraries set with hourly loans for items such as laptops and > tablets. I create an hourly circulation policy based on Circulation > Modifier and usually with an hourly fine and maximum fine. > > I have not found a good way to notify staff that the hourly loan is due or > overdue. > > For some libraries Holds are allowed with the Hold policy Transit Range > set to fill Holds only to be picked up at the owning library. The items do > not transit. In our setup Transit Range is set to Library but this will > depend on how your org units are set. > > Aside for hourly loans, I'll mention that we also have two org units in a > physical building. I use the Library Setting Suppress Non-Hold Transits > Group to prevent the checkins from going in transit within the same > building. > > Joan > > Joan Kranich > C/W MARS Member Services > jkran...@cwmars.org > 508-755-3323 ext. 21 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Open-ils-general [mailto: > open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Yamil > Suarez > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 12:39 PM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items > > Carol, > > We use hourly circulation for "class reserve" materials as well as for > laptop chargers, which should only go out for 2 hours and cannot be renewed > or placed on hold. > > Here are more or less the steps that we took to create this rule with > ESI's guidance... > > 1) We created a circ duration rule for the hourly period, in our case > 2 hours with 0 renewals. With the short/normal/extended values set to > 2 hours. > > 2) We created a new circulation modifier for the items that will circulate > for two hours, though this may be optional depending on your set up. We > called ours "rbook" for reserve books. > > 3) We created a new org unit to own our reserve collection, in essence a > library within our main library that share the same physical space/st > address. I forget the details now, but I believe this was done so that the > we could have overdue notices send out at an hourly interval for reserve > items that live in the reserve OU. I believe if we did not create that > reserve OU then our overdue notices would only run once a day (as the main > library OU needed), as opposed to hourly. > Then again, I may be remembering things incorrectly. > > 4) Finally we created a circ policy that referred to the "rbooks" circ mo > and the reserve OU and assigned a circ duration of 2 hours. I also from the > circ policy set a 1 hour grace period. > > I hope this makes sense, and I wonder how others have solved the same > request. One thing I don't like is that we have two OUs living inside of a > physical library. Therefore I have to keep circ machines set up for the > both OUs to avoid having items being put on transit all the time. > > Good luck, > Yamil > > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Carol Yarrison <cyarri...@biblio.org> > wrote: > > Hi all, we have a new library in our consortium who would like to > > circulate items reserved for projects and chargers for iPad/iPhone on an > hourly basis. > > Do any of you have such a circulatoin policy and how do you handle it? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Carol > > > > -- > > “What in the world would we do without our libraries?” > > ― Katharine Hepburn > > > > Carol Yarrison > > Help Desk Coordinator/Trainer > > Bibliomation, Inc > > 24 Wooster Ave > > Waterbury, CT > > 203-577-4070 x112 > > > > -- > > > > -------------------------------- > > Yamil Suarez, MCS > Library System Administrator/Developer > > Stan Getz Library > Berklee College of Music > 1140 Boylston St > Boston, MA 02215 > > ysua...@berklee.edu > 617-747-2617 > -- -------------------------------- Yamil Suarez, MCS Library Systems Administrator/Developer Stan Getz Library Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston St Boston, MA 02215 ysua...@berklee.edu 617-747-2617