Re: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment
-Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nora Blake Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:14 AM To: Cab Vinton; Koha list Subject: Re: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment Hi Cab, We don't have a formal policy about this yet, but the library that collects the fine, keeps the fine without worrying about sending part of the money to another site. Lost item replacements are a different matter and that money goes to the library that owns the lost item. Overdue fines just stay at the library that collected it. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:26 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment Oof. We're part of a 3-library Koha consortium and technically each library is supposed to only deal with fines pertaining to its own items. But the Fines detail page is less than helpful when it comes to figuring out to which library fines are owed. (Staff have to look at each item individually.) Do other Koha consortia have best practices for dealing with fines when dealing with multiple libraries (vs. branches of the same library system)? What improvements would you suggest? It seems like this would be an area where consensus would be a good thing to have before submitting bug reports, feature requests, etc. FWIW, the only related bug I've found is this one -- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9975 Thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH Southern NH Library Cooperative ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
[Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment
Hello Mr. Vinton, and greetings from Finland! We are facing a similar issue and were planning to solve it with SQL reports. Each library just receives payments regardless of the origin of items. We can see which libraries received and how much money from the accountlines database table. You can target the item, the staff member who received the payment and the borrower. This should provide ample data to distribute the collected fines annually or bi-annually based on the SQL reports. I would also note that we are not yet in production and cannot verify this 100%. Olli-Antti Kivilahti Open library 2014 Joensuu Regional Library --Powered by Linuxmint On 21.10.2013 02:00, koha-requ...@lists.katipo.co.nz wrote: From: Cab Vintonbibli...@gmail.com To: Koha listkoha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment Message-ID: CABW43UTLOX-F9mYUPe_C_J-RV=-vH400JNy5A=qwha065c6...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Oof. We're part of a 3-library Koha consortium and technically each library is supposed to only deal with fines pertaining to its own items. But the Fines detail page is less than helpful when it comes to figuring out to which library fines are owed. (Staff have to look at each item individually.) Do other Koha consortia have best practices for dealing with fines when dealing with multiple libraries (vs. branches of the same library system)? What improvements would you suggest? It seems like this would be an area where consensus would be a good thing to have before submitting bug reports, feature requests, etc. FWIW, the only related bug I've found is this one -- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9975 Thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH Southern NH Library Cooperative ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment
Hi Cab, We don't have a formal policy about this yet, but the library that collects the fine, keeps the fine without worrying about sending part of the money to another site. Lost item replacements are a different matter and that money goes to the library that owns the lost item. Overdue fines just stay at the library that collected it. Nora Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nbl...@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls -Original Message- From: koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:26 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Fwd: Managing fines in a consortial environment Oof. We're part of a 3-library Koha consortium and technically each library is supposed to only deal with fines pertaining to its own items. But the Fines detail page is less than helpful when it comes to figuring out to which library fines are owed. (Staff have to look at each item individually.) Do other Koha consortia have best practices for dealing with fines when dealing with multiple libraries (vs. branches of the same library system)? What improvements would you suggest? It seems like this would be an area where consensus would be a good thing to have before submitting bug reports, feature requests, etc. FWIW, the only related bug I've found is this one -- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9975 Thanks, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH Southern NH Library Cooperative ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
