Dear Michael, Thanks a lot for the detailed response.You are right, the staff can be instructed. Also anomalies can be identified through reports. Another thing, I am confused in two global system parameters. If I set, CircControl to "the item the library is from" which would be the home branch or permanent library and HomeOrHoldingBranch to "Holding Branch", wouldn't that create conflict. What is the difference in the two? With best regards, Naveen Ali ITM-JE (EAKL) Inst Representative for HEC Digital Library Resources. NEDUET, Karachi. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hafen (TECH)" <michael.hafen@washk12.org> To: "Ms. Naveen Ali" <naveen@neduet.edu.pk> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz, vikramczadgaonkar@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 21 April, 2022 10:43:55 PM Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] How to apply Lending Restrictions I'm not aware of a way to limit the scope of Independent Branches at this point. And Independent Branches is the only way to restrict the Set Library option. It comes down to either instructing and trusting your staff to not use the Set Library option, or making a local code change (easiest would probably be to remove the Set Library option from koha-tmp/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/includes/header.inc and circ/ set-library.pl ). I've heard that some want to drop Independent Branches in favor of additional library group types, which would be more flexible and may facilitate what you are trying to accomplish, but I don't know where the work to that end is at. On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 1:34 AM Ms. Naveen Ali < naveen@neduet.edu.pk > wrote: Dear Vikram & Michael, I tried out this option. 1. Independent Branches does restrict staff and items to library, but also restricts patrons. My patrons can share and access all libraries. Is there a way to overcome this. I tried library groups but independent branch supersedes. 2. If I don't use Independent Branch, Is there a permission to restrict the Set Library Option? With thanks and best regards, Naveen Ali ITM-JE (EAKL) Inst Representative for HEC Digital Library Resources. NEDUET, Karachi. From: "Michael Hafen (TECH)" < michael.hafen@washk12.org > To: "Ms. Naveen Ali" < naveen@neduet.edu.pk > Cc: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org , koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: Wednesday, 20 April, 2022 10:20:34 PM Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] How to apply Lending Restrictions It may be a bit drastic, but if this is the only library on this Koha system you could try turning each section into a branch and turning on independent branches. Separate branches would allow for different rules without drastically increasing the number of item types, and staff would be at a certain branch. Turning on independent branches would effectively restrict them to their section. You could even hold the independent branches setting for a bit to see if it works to have each section as a separate branch. On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 11:15 PM Ms. Naveen Ali < naveen@neduet.edu.pk > wrote: <blockquote> Dear members, I would like to put forward the following scenario. Our library has three sections where books are loaned and they each have different policies. All library members have access to all sections. I would like to implement the library policy where 1. staff of one section can issue books of that section only 2. books should also be returned to the same section. There is no general rule; just specific rules for each section. This is what I am doing. I have provided Permanent Library of all book items as the main library name and the Current Library as the section library. I am trying to use the following global parameters to implement our library policies, but am not successful. * AllowReturnToBranch Allow items to be checked in "Only at the item the library is from" (I understand this to be the current library) * AutomaticItemReturn Don't automatically transfer items to their home library when they are checked in. (I understand the home library to be the permanent library) * CircControl Use the calendar and circulation rules of "the library the item is from" (I understand this to be the current library) * HomeOrHoldingBranch Use the checkout and fines rules of " the items holding library" (I understand holding library = current library and home library = permanent library) *It seems that CircControl and HomeOrHoldingBranch paramter are same. I also can't find how to restrict a library staff member from Setting his library to any that he wants by using the "Set Library" Option available. Also how to prevent staff from issuing books belonging to other libraries. With best regards, Naveen Ali ITM-JE (EAKL) Inst Representative for HEC Digital Library Resources. NEDUET, Karachi. _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : https://www.koha-community.org/ git : https://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : https://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Michael Hafen Washington County School District Technology Department Systems Analyst </blockquote> -- Michael Hafen Washington County School District Technology Department Systems Analyst