On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Sweeney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 us
Hi Nicolas and Paul,
In the North American case, and the way I have it written up now, an
hourly loan is basically a regular loan, just shorter. A patron can't
borrow the items for more than two hours, the same way they can't
borrow the item for more than three weeks for a different kind of
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
>> circulati
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
Hi Paul,
This is interesting. The scenario you describe would not be accounted
for in the Hourly Circulation Policies specification. Libraries that I
have talked to in the US and UK that have significant closed-stack or
reserve collections don't seem to follow the model you talk about
belo
