[Koha-devel] hourly circulation policies

[Nicolas Morin]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Sweeney
<daniel.sweeney at 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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> On Oct 16, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Paul POULAIN wrote:
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>> Nicolas Morin a écrit :
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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