Hi Mandy, we allow borrowing of our overnight loan items but not reservations. This caused mammoth problems until iii came up with this:
Dear Ms. O'Sullivan,
I've thought about the denyiflocalavail option a bit more, and I believe we
can avoid any extra work at checkin. Let me review the setup:
1. Create a new locations served (call it AAA). Include in AAA only the
locations of the items you wish not to be requestable.
2. Assign all requestable items to another locations served (call it BBB).
2. Assign all WebOPAC logins to locations served BBB.
3. Do not assign the staff circulation logins to any locations served.
4. Set the wwwoptions to denyiflocalavail.
Now, if there is a requestable item on the shelf, it will be a local item
(belonging to locations served BBB, that is, local to the locations served
of the login that the WebOPAC patron is using), and the wwwoption
denyiflocalavail will block any request, item or title.
And, if a nonrequestable item is available, it will be in locations served
AAA, which will be nonlocal to the WebOPAC login, BBB, and the item-level
hold will be denied because of the request rule that prevents holds on
available items. But holds at the title level will be allowed.
That's the requesting bit. Here's the checkout and checkin bit. The
nonrequestable item belonging to locations served AAA can be checked out
from any login. It can be checked in with no extra keystrokes as long as
the login checking it in is not assigned to any locations served or is
assigned to locations served AAA.
Please let me know what you think. You might like to set it up and
experiment. I think is the best we are going to be able to do ith the
current software functionality.
Looking forward to hearing from you. By the way, I will be out of the
office all next week.
Best regards.
Dave Strickler
Hope it helps...
Catherine O'Sullivan
Systems & Bibliographic Services Manager
St Mary's University College
Waldegrave Road
Strawberry Hill
TWICKENHAM TW1 4SX
Tel: 020 8240 4303 Fax: 020 8240 4270
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Sent: Fri 12/10/2007 11:09
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Subject: Branch libraries collection not satisfying a reservation
Dear all,
We have a collection of books at one of our outreach sites, that up until now didn't reside on the public opac. We've changed this so that the students can see what they've got to borrow, and I thought I'd sussed the reservation thing in that anyone else can't reserve their stock - however - we use title level holds, and drop loan length to a week and this is affecting their 3 week loan borrowing, as it is dropping their loan length too ( and won't allow renewals whilst holds are outstanding).
Is there a way to completely separate their collection, so that none of the items will be available to satisfy a reservation?
Thanks,
Mandy
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