Hi All At our meeting on IRC this morning Paul asked me to write a brief explanation of branch categories and what they can be used for. The easiest way is with an example. You could make a category, IS for issuing Then you can go my $branches = getbranches('IS'); Which will get you all branches that are of that category. This is useful for libraries that have branches that cant issue. So you can use this call in the script which chooses which branch you will be issuing for. Or RE for Reserve Pickups Then on the opac-reserve.pl you could do $branches = getbranches('RE'); Then you will only be giving the users the list of branches they can pick reserves up from. A branch can belong to more than one category also, so it can be RE, IS, etc But you could have a 'branch' which is called Mending, which doesnt show up in circulation, or reserves, but you can transfer books to this branch when they need to be mended etc. Or like one of our clients you might have 4 physical branches, but only 3 of them can circulate books. It just allows you flexibility I hope this helps, please ask more questions if I havent been clear enough. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz