Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

2016-01-14 Thread Joan Kranich
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 go

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

2016-01-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, Two of the MassLNC partners use hourly loan rules for reserves materials. They may be able to speak more specifically as to how they configured their loan rules (I believe both are using circ modifiers as Yamil described). One of the drawbacks to the hourly loan rules is that, if use

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

2016-01-14 Thread Yamil Suarez
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

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Hourly circulation of items

2016-01-14 Thread Carol Yarrison
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

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Has anyone used OCLC's: Sustainable Collection Services (Green Glass)?

2016-01-14 Thread Yamil Suarez
Hello, I am just starting the process of potentially merging with another library, and we are going to use OCLC's: Sustainable Collection Services (Green Glass) to analyze our collection overlap and for general usage statistics. Has anyone used them before on Evergreen, that would allow me to pic

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [Evergreen-catalogers] Early Bird Registration to the Evergreen International Conference 2016

2016-01-14 Thread Rogan Hamby
Hi Carine, I've registered through eventbrite but not called the hotel yet. Is there a room block I should be giving them setup for the conference or anything like that? On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Carine Mattix wrote: > Good Morning, > > As we are entering a new year, we are looking forwa

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] When does the EG Academics group want to meet at the 2016 conference?

2016-01-14 Thread Yamil Suarez
Morning, I need to tell the conference committee what the academic group wants to do regarding when to meet. I will reply to them by 3 Pm EST today. I prefer to get feedback from those that participate in the group, if not I will choose on my own. So if you can please reply to this message. Thank

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Early Bird Registration to the Evergreen International Conference 2016

2016-01-14 Thread Carine Mattix
Good Morning, As we are entering a new year, we are looking forward to the Evergreen International Conference 2016. This year we will be at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, located in downtown Raleigh, NC from April 20th to the 23rd. We are excited to welcome Jason Hibbetts