Nicolas Morin a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Sweeney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc NOUVEAU TELEPHONE : 04 91 81 35 08 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
