Hi all, I got this question today and I realized that the manual is not clear and now I am second guessing myself - can someone help me out with updating the manual and answering this question? ----- What we want to have happen is that if an item is returned to the checkout library (which is not the owning library for the item) then we want the checkout library to be able to fill a hold on that item by a patron of the checkout library without having to send the item back to the owning library, have the owning library ship it back and then check it out to the patron with the hold. That seems to be what the description in Section 1.1.5.2.11 of the manual ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10/en/administration.html#HomeOrHoldingBr...) is describing. However the manual states that this setting "Asks: Use the checkout and fine rules of_____" and That does not seem to make sense in relation to the description. Since there is such a caution against changing this setting after the initial setup, we want to get it right. Also, I believe that we concluded during training that we would have the IndependentBranches preferences set to prevent so this setting would apply. However I am now confused about the IndependentBranches settings which I thought only applied to what staff can do. When I get to the part of the description in section .1.2.3.2 of the manual ( http://manual.koha-community.org/3.10/en/administration.html#IndependantBran...) that says Prevent will, "preventing users from other branch locations from placing holds or checking out materials from library branches other than their own" I am left wondering if this will stop all holds by patrons of one library from placing holds on items for other libraries. Or is it just that staff of one library cannot place a hold on another libraries items....