It is my understanding - after a bit of testing - that this is the 'Total number of items the patron can have checked out at one time' So if your total allowed is 5 and I have 3 out from last week and i want to check out 3 more today - I can only check out 2 of them. That said, you can override that. When you go to check out the 3rd item for today it will pop up a warning that will tell you that I already have 5 items checked out and that's your max. It will then ask if you want to check this extra book out to me anyway. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ruth Vargas <ruth.vargas@hclibrary.org>wrote:
Hi all,
I'm from Howard County Library, Maryland and am new to the list. My library is scheduled to go live with Koha in mid-December and I have lots of questions related to setup and understanding how the software works in a real environment in order to make wise decisions about parameters and system preferences. I hope this is the right forum for this type of inquiry and that I won't become too much of a pest, but your combined wisdom will be invaluable, I'm sure.
I'm currently working on Circulation and Fines Rules. At the bottom of the page in Koha it says: *For this library, you can specify the maximum number of loans that a patron of a given category can make, regardless of the item type. *The column to enter number of loans is labeled Total Current Checkouts Allowed.
Does this mean:
- Number of items checked out during this checkout session only? - Total number of items the patron can have checked out at one time? In our current system we have doubled the single checkout session figure so the patron isn't stopped at checkout if s/he returns items upon entering the library that have not yet been checked in.
Thanks for your assistance on the first of many (simple) questions I have.
Regards, Ruth
Ruth Vargas -- Software Systems Manager, Information Technology Howard County Library voice: 410.313.7923 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway fax: 410.313.7864 Columbia, MD, USA 21044 email: ruth.vargas@HCLibrary.org http://aquabrowser.hclibrary.org
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