One of the things we wanted to do when we developed Evergreen was to give
libraries better options around deposit collections. Under our vendor
based ILS, libraries had to use a prescribed list of types that became our
circ modifiers and MARC Types. One of those was DEPOSIT. PINES libraries
wanted
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Hardy, Elaine
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Catalogers
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you handle deposit collections?
One of the things we wanted to do when we developed Evergreen was to give
libraries better options around deposit collections
'; 'Evergreen Catalogers'
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you handle deposit collections?
Hi Elaine,
Can you explain what a deposit collection is? I've never heard of our
libraries using anything by that name.
Showing my ignorance,
Mary
From: open-ils-general-boun
To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'; 'Evergreen Catalogers'
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How do you handle deposit collections?
It's used for items that are high demand and have a high incidence of theft
and damage (like test books). The patron has to put down a monetary deposit
at checkout
