Right, Cindy -- the reserves are attached to a biblio record. If you have more than one branch, people can select where they want to pick an item up, but if copies are available at some branches, then somebody (at the library) has to decide which copy gets sent to the pick-up branch. We process enough reserves that we have written a cron script that runs every hour; it looks through the reserves and decides (according to a hard-coded "pick list") which copy will be used to satisfy the reserve. This information then gets loaded into a MySQL table that staff can access through a special link on our staff webpage. Periodically (at least daily), they check to see which of their books should be sent to other branches to satisfy reserves. The "normal" Koha behavior is: If all of the copies are checked out, then Koha automatically assigns copies to the next reserve as they are returned. If you don't set up any special mechanism for handling reserves on items that are available, then the reserve remains unsatisfied until an issued copy gets returned. Stephen Cindy Murdock said:

Hello all,

For those of you with more than one library or branch, I have a question about how reserves work. Is there only one reserve queue per biblio, regardless of how many branches have copies of the item? Stephen, how do you handle it at Nelsonville? I only have one library's records in our database presently, so I'm not able to fully try it out yet.

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