Good afternoon,

                The Cooperative Information Network (CIN) is looking for individuals or groups that would be interested in helping to fund an enhancement for Koha that would allow a session override for checkouts.

The Issue:

Currently, the OverduesBlockCirc blocks an individual from checking out an item if they have an overdue.  This overdue generates a block/override message for each item the patron checks out, as long as they have an overdue item on their account.  This is not a big issue if they have one or two items that they are checking out.  However, when you have family that has checked out 25-50 items, and the items are overdue, even by a day, and they drop them in the book drop and then come to the checkout desk with another 25-50 items, this can be a burdensome task.  The staff member either has to take time and locate all the items from the checkout desk and check them in, or they have to checkout items, and override the block on each item.

Turning off the OverduesBlockCirc is not an option in our case, because in general, we want this to stop people from checking items out if they have overdues that haven’t been returned, and we do not accrue fines.

The Solution:

                We want to create a preference that would allow session overrides.  The means, when the preference is on, it would allow the block message to come up, and if overridden, the override would remain in effect while the staff member remains on the checkout screen for that patron.  Once they navigate away, the override is cleared.

                This project has been quoted to be about $5500 to fund.  If you are interested in helping to fund this project, please let me know.

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Christopher Brannon
IT Coordinator


702 E Front Ave
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
(208)769-2315 Ext. 456
cbrannon@cdalibrary.org
www.cdalibrary.org

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