Hi Paul, I have the opposite situation in my library system. We have independent branches turned off, because it's too broad. We'd like to use it to prevent libraries from editing each other's materials, but we had to disable it because it kept our libraries from adding or modifying each other's borrowers. In our county system we have a lot of patrons that use multiple libraries within the system, so our librarians frequently need to add or modify borrowers from other libraries. But, we would really like to be able to keep our librarians from editing other libraries' items (we've already had it happen and it's not pretty!), so we're going to have to do something. Here's a couple of ideas: Could IndependentBranches be turned into a "mega" syspref that, if enabled, would enable other sysprefs, like one to control adding/editing materials, and another for adding/editing borrowers? That way, if you wanted both, they'd both be on, or you could choose one or the other. Or, instead of controlling the editing of materials by branch with a syspref, maybe add a column to the branches table that would control who is allowed to add/edit materials to that branch, i.e., just a librarian from that branch or everybody. Just my $0.02. Cindy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cindy Murdock IT Services Director Meadville Public Library | CCFLS http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org Paul POULAIN wrote:

Hello,

I have an open question for a use case we don't handle correctly atm.

Suppose a library consortia with IndependantBranches=ON

Items can be modified only by the Homebranch. That's logic.

but I have a library that is IndependantBranche=ON, but books come from 2 sources : - self-acquired - issued by a third (region wide) library, dedicated to issue books to small library. We have one "BDP" (Bibliothèque Départementale de Prêt) in each department in France, and we have 98 departments...

The books issued by the BDP are issued for a long period (3months => 1year). They are stored in a shelf in the holding library as self-acquired books. So, the holdinglibrary sometimes want... to change the itemcallnumber or location

And with IndependantBranches=ON, only the homebranch can edit the item, and we have a problem...

The easiest solution would be to let holdingbranch edit the items. Could it be OK for everybody ? Not sure. Your opinion welcomed. The other easiest solution could be to say "ok, it's only for superlibrarian". The library could accept this, but, obviously, it's not the best from a user point of view. Another solution could be to have a new syspref, but i'm against adding syspref & syspref & syspref...

Does anyone have another solution or idea ?

-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cindy Murdock IT Services Director Meadville Public Library | CCFLS http://meadvillelibrary.org | http://ccfls.org