[Koha-devel] hourly circulation policies

[Nicolas Morin]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Sweeney
<daniel.sweeney at 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.
My 2 cts.
Nicolas


> The circulation policies
> for each would be distinct. It might be hard for the circulation desk
> staff to always be sure what kind of loan they were giving someone.
> The existing model, with one kind of loan, is really simple--once the
> circulation staff have to pick more than one loan type the user
> interface becomes hard to manage. I'm just thinking out loud here--
> there might be a better way to do that.
>
> Does that make sense to you?
>
> Thanks, salut,
>
> Dan
>
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> On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Paul POULAIN wrote:
>
>> Hello Daniel (& koha-dev),
>>
>> I'm reading your RFCs abour hourly circulation policies. and I have
>> a question about them.
>> Here in France, a common situation is the following :
>> the students can issue ON SITE (in the library) some books (say 10),
>> for the day.
>> If they are happy with the book, they can take it at home, and,
>> thus, make a "classic" issue.
>> Thus, I was wondering wether your proposal can handle that. I don't
>> think yes, but maybe i've misread something...
>>
>> If I'm not misreading, isn't it something that could be interesting
>> for US libraries ? isn't it a common feature for what we call in
>> France "conservation libraries". I mean here libraries that have
>> large parts not accessible to the public :
>> - the patron ask for a book, to see what is written here
>> - a librarian goes in the undergrounds to get the book
>> - it's issued for the day to the patron
>> - 2 hours later, the patron comes back to the issuing librarian and
>> ask for a "out of library" (ie : daily rules) issue
>>
>> --
>> Paul POULAIN
>> http://www.biblibre.com
>> Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc
>> NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08
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