Josh, FWIW, we have a few libraries that also make use of "same day" checkouts for these types of items like Jeff describes. It's simple, and I haven't heard reports of problems with it.
Michele -- Michele M. Morgan, Technical Support Analyst North of Boston Library Exchange, Danvers Massachusetts [email protected] On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:14 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < [email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, thank you very much for letting me know about this behavior. We > just tried it out and this seems like the simplest solution to get us most > of the way there. > > Josh > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:46 PM Jeff Godin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:32 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, we are looking at circulating laptops for in building use only, >>> and are looking into options for how to handle the checkout timing. >>> >> >> Hi, Josh! >> >> We took a slightly different approach with this: >> >> We use a circ duration called "sameday", which is defined with an >> interval of 00:00:00. >> >> On checkout, the due date is shown as being end of day today -- 23:59:59. >> >> (This doesn't meet your "closing time of the library" goal, but in >> practice we've not had an issue with this -- possibly in part because we >> don't have any sub-24 hour durations at the libraries in question.) >> >> Around the end of the day or the following morning, we look for any items >> still checked out, and check them in if found. Some libraries use a report, >> or visual inspection of a "laptop cart" with clear numbered spaces, or >> simply count to ensure that the expected number of machines are present. >> >> If any equipment appears to be unreturned, it's reported to a manager and >> we expand our search, attempt to contact the patron, mark the item "lost by >> patron" (which bills the patron), deactivate the device / put the device >> into "lost mode" as appropriate, etc. >> >> In theory if staff fail to notice a missing item, it will receive the >> usual overdue notices, be automatically billed, etc. In practice so far >> that I'm aware of, the missing items are noticed rather quickly. :-) >> >> Happy to discuss further if you like, >> >> -jeff >> > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >
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