Hello,
A work around for this is to adjust your short loan location opening time
in the 'hours open' table. This does not affect the ability to issue
material when Innopac thinks you are closed, it only affects the return
times. Innopac automatically makes short loans issue overnight from 3 hours
before closing time; they are due back one hour after opening time the
following day. For example we want our books to be due aback at 11am and to
issue overnight at 3pm so our short loan locations have an opening time of
10am and a closing time of 6pm. The only drawback is that items cannot be
booked for after 6pm but if you don't use bookings then that's not a
problem,
hope this helps,
Carol Kay
--On 25 May 2005 10:54 +0100 Colin Rennie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Mandy,
>
> We at SOAS had a similar experience - traditionally our short
> loans were due back at 6.00pm the following day and this caused
> alot of confusion when we migrated to Innopac as the default time
> for hourly loans is 10.00am the next day.
> We set the fines up so that there was a grace period of 540
> minutes so that fines wouldnt start to be calculated until after
> 6.00pm.
> To be honest it caused alot of confusion and we decided it simply
> wasnt worth the hassle. In the end we thought instead of trying to
> adapt Innopac to our own local rules we would adapt our local rules
> to fit Innopac.So we changed our short loans to 10.00am the next
> day.
>
> This doesnt really answer your query but just a warning that
> tweeking about with fines can result in confusion and sometimes it
> is better just to go with the flow as Innopac dictates.
>
> Cheers
> Colin
>
> Date sent: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:16:34 +0100
> Send reply to: This list is for current and potential users of
> the Innopac system <[log in to unmask]> From:
> Mandy Phillips <[log in to unmask]> Subject:
> Overnight loans and fines
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Can you let me know how you currently handle your fines on overnight loan
>> items?
>>
>> We have a problem.. We would like to charge 50p per day for an overnight
>> loan, but have set it up as an hourly rule (13 hours).
>>
>> As far as I can see, we can either charge 5p per hour, to make a 65p fine
>> or change the loan rule to daily but not have it returned in the morning?
>>
>> How have other sites managed this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mandy
>>
>> Edge Hill
>>
>
>
>
>
> Colin Rennie
> Systems Librarian
> School of Oriental and African Studies
> Thornhaugh Street
> London
> WC1H 0XG
>
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Carol Kay
User Services Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
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