Hello Amy,
I have never set one consortium wide but I imagine it is no different that setting one for an individual library. What you are looking for is located in Admin-->Local Admin-->Hold Policies. You can limit the total number of requests placed. I looked over the settings and I believe it treats all requests (title/copy/volume) the same. As for you patrons who already have items requested that exceed your proposed limit I believe that it will still requesting those 30 items but they will not be able to request additional items until their number of requests get below 5 or whatever your new limit is. I hope this helps and anyone correct me if I am wrong. Thanks, Jordan Aubrey Area Library On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Amy Terlaga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all-- > > We here at Bibliomation *think* there is a way in Evergreen to set > consortially a limit on the total number of hold requests that can be > placed for patrons. For instance, we're thinking of restricting it to 5 > total at one time for all patrons. > > Has anyone on the list limited the number of total requests? Can it be > done for just title requests? What happens to those patrons that already > have, say, 30 requests, and we put this into place? Do they have to wait > until their requests get down to 4 before another one will go through? > > Any information provided on this feature would be greatly appreciated. > Since we're not even sure if this feature exists, we have no idea how to > set it. > > Thanks! > Amy > > -- > +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > Amy Terlaga > Director of Member Services > Bibliomation, Inc. > 24 Wooster Avenue > Waterbury, CT 06708 > (203)577-4070 x101 > [email protected] > -- If you need further assistance, please contact the library at 940-365-9162 or send a reply email. Thank You, The Library Staff 226 Countryside Dr., Aubrey, TX 76227
