I lost the thread on this discussion. So I will just jump in.
It sounds like we have two issues here: 1) Is the software working as designed? 2) What is an effective way of managing a reserve (reading room only) collection? Does that sound right? George Tuttle Computer Services Librarian Piedmont Regional Library System 770-867-2762 x103 770-891-0654 (cell) 770-867-7483 (fax) gtut...@prlib.org _____ From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Bas Otting Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:04 AM To: open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Issue with Closed Stacks and reference books forReading Room and not lending Hello all, At the Peace Palace Library we have Closed Stacks for all our works which are either in-house reference material or can be borrowed. Therefore: patrons or staff place a Hold, we need the Pull List for Holds Requests mechanism for accessing our Closed Stacks and we need a Circulation Policy rule that tells Evergreen that some works on the Holds Shelf can actually be borrowed and others can not and are Reading Rooms only. Here is the issue: we can't figure out how to achieve this scenario (out of the box Evergreen 1.6.0.1): we did not tinker yet with Circulation Policies or Circ Modifiers but forced behaviour in the copy editor: <http://screencast.com/t/YzY1Yzk3Y2E> http://screencast.com/t/YzY1Yzk3Y2E A copy item that has Circulate "No" (for in-house only) is Holdable but does *not* appear on the Pull List. Dead end. So: we tried Circulate "Yes" and then "Reference" is "Yes" - but to our surprise, such an item can be checked out. Oops. Anybody an idea how to tackle this ? We realise Evergreen has its roots in an Open Stacks environment but even then patrons might inadvertently try to check out an item marked "Reference" ? Really hope there is a solution combinable with a Closed Stacks situation. Kind regards, Bas Otting Peace Palace Library http://www.ppl.nl/ Carnegieplein 2 2517 KJ Den Haag