On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Sweeney <daniel.sweeney@liblime.com> wrote:
That aspect of it is an interesting user interface design challenge--people usually want the circulation work areas to be optimized for fast processing, but there are a lot of options available in there. The actual user interface might get cluttered and staff might start to loan things with the wrong policies, or get annoyed that they have to switch the menu back and forth from one loan type to another. Those two things start to conflict.
I might be worrying too much about it--just adding a sticky drop-down menu for the checkout type might work there.
That's what I argued with Paul: I entirely share your worries here.
I think this is something that someone could add as a separate project after the initial hourly loans work is done--the actual hourly loans are independent of having more than one loan type.
++ Nicolas
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Dan
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On Oct 16, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Paul POULAIN wrote:
Nicolas Morin a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Sweeney <daniel.sweeney@liblime.com> wrote:
From a system perspective, I think you would probably need more than one type of loan, so that you could give the patron an "in-library" loan for a few hours, using an hourly circulation policy, then let them upgrade some charges to an 'out-of- library' loan for a longer period of time.
One thing that worries me about hourly circulation is that it should not conflict with a "regular" loan. Case: patron A has 10 books on her account, which is the maximum allowed; she comes to the library to read something "in-library", it just so happens that what she wants is in the stacks: we can't have Koha refuse to do this hourly loan because she has already reached the maximum number of documents on loan for her account. So yes, I think your make an important point here: hourly circulation should not be a "regular loan", just shorter; it should be a different type of loan.
What I was thinking was having something like : * circ rules are doubled. We have the "standard circ rule" and the "alternate circ rule". each of them being completly independant (one can be daily, one hourly, or both daily...) * on issuing screen (issue.pl), a checkbox let the librarian choose between "default" and "alternate" circ rules. The checkbox being preserved from one issue to the other.
Thus, the library can issue quickly on a rule or another one.
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