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John, Our system, Aleph, does this - our loans control table has different columns for due dates depending on whether an item is reserved or not. It is based on simply the presence of any hold, not on a definable threshold, but is otherwise very flexible in terms of different options for different types of reader. We do not have a lot of experience of this, because most of our member libraries work on the principle of not allowing holds on available books and never allowing renewals of any loaned books with holds (which means that the sort of situation you are looking at can rarely arise). HTH. Best wishes, Alan ============================== Mr A.V. Exelby, Systems/Databases Librarian. The Library, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel.: 01603 592432 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Information Services ================================ "Man, who'd have thought being a librarian could be so tough" Seamus Harper, in 'Harper 2.0', "Andromeda". >-----Original Message----- >From: A general Library and Information Science list for news >and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >John Smith >Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:31 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Flexible or dynamic loan periods? > >Hi, > >Does anyone operate, or know of a library that operates, a >self adjusting flexible loan period service? By this I mean a >system where the loan period applied to an item is changed >automatically according to how in demand the item is (usually >judged by counting the number of outstanding reservations). I >realise this is often done manually but I'm thinking of a >fully automated system that is part of the LMS. > >Regards, > >John Smith, >The Templeman Library, >University of Kent, UK. >