My library has nine branches but we told the ILS that we are all in the same building. That way, age protected items will be FIFO to all of the patrons in our nine branches. Anything without age protection is FIFO throughout our resource sharing consortium.
Diane Disbro Circulation Coordinator/Branch Manager Union Branch Scenic Regional Library 308 Hawthorne Drive Union, MO 63084 636-583-3224 <mailto:ddis...@scenicregional.org> ddis...@scenicregional.org www.scenicregional.org From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of scott.tho...@sparkpa.org Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7:31 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Catalog holds status display - Hold queue and potential copies Another interesting issue was raised in this discussion. Our consortium is all proximity because we were told that, if org units within a consortium plan to resource share, they must all be FIFO or proximity, but it appears some of you are hybrids. Can I assume you do not resource share at all or do not do so beyond the local library system? Thank you, Scott Scott Thomas Executive Director PaILS / SPARK (717) 873-9461 <mailto:scott.tho...@sparkpa.org> scott.tho...@sparkpa.org <http://www.palibrary.org/pails/> Description: Description: Training | SPARK – Pennsylvania's Statewide Library System From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Diane Disbro Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 8:30 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org>; ME list serv <evergr...@lists.mobiusconsortium.org> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Catalog holds status display - Hold queue and potential copies I am very interested to hear if someone has done something with this other than try to explain to disgruntled patrons why they see in their online account that they are next in the queue for an item but they wait weeks or months to get it. Thank you, Josh, for asking. Diane Disbro Circulation Coordinator/Branch Manager Union Branch Scenic Regional Library 308 Hawthorne Drive Union, MO 63084 (636) 583-3224 On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Josh Stompro <stomp...@exchange.larl.org> wrote: Hello, Those of you that use age hold protection and non FIFO best hold selection sort order, what have you done with the status column of holds in your catalog. We just noticed that it is showing the FIFO queue position for holds, along with all potential copies. This gives users bad info since for us holds are sometimes filled in FIFO order for some orgs, and are filled based on proximity for other locations. And since one org uses age hold protection, the total copy count isn’t accurate either since half the copies might be age hold protected so they cannot fill the users holds. Did you just remove that section from templates/opac/parts/hold_status.tt2? Did you modify it in some way? I would like to see examples of what you changed it to if you changed it. Should the potential copies count exclude copies that are age hold protected and cannot be captured for that hold? Right now it pulls from hold copy map, but it looks like restricting the copy count based on the age hold protection might be possible to add. Thanks Josh Lake Agassiz Regional Library - Moorhead MN larl.org Josh Stompro | Office 218.233.3757 EXT-139 <tel:(218)%20233-3757> LARL IT Director | Cell 218.790.2110 <tel:(218)%20790-2110>
