http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10591 Bug ID: 10591 Summary: Why do we allow holds on restricted items (952$5=Use restrictions)? Place a hold for reference? Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: master Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: Circulation Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl QA Contact: testopia@bugs.koha-community.org CC: gmcharlt@gmail.com, kyle.m.hall@gmail.com Currently, it is possible to place a hold on an item marked as Restricted with 952 $5. And you can also confirm the hold, setting it to Waiting status. The code in Circulation.pm (CanBookBeIssued) checks before issuing if an item is restricted and will not permit checkout. So actually, the book is not for loan. It may be available for reference in the library? This may be just unintentional. But if we would have the intention to provide a mechanism to place holds for reference in the library, we probably should deal with the remaining workflow too. How do we registrate that the user received the book for reference, and when do we remove the waiting hold? Do we count these kind of references? Note also that we could have a library building workflow on this possibility, and another developer that some day makes it impossible to reserve restricted items not knowing that. What do you think? Setting this report to In Discussion, hoping for some more feedback. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.