Nicole,

I know nothing of the code of Koha but what you describe for Holds to Pull and Holds Queue is exactly the opposite of our experience. In our shared Koha when we look at ?Hold to Pull? we see every blessed hold request that is open. When we go to ?Holds Queue? and select a library from that list we see only the open holds that site has to fill.

But again, I can?t point to code to support this.

Nora ________________________

Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: nblake@masslibsystem.org AIM: noraatmls

From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:20 PM To: NCRL Support Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Holds to Pull

I'm here with Barb and to those of you who replied to her saying to use

Dear Adalid This is regard to the converting excel file to MARC format by using MARCEDit software. I am able to migrate single copy, can you guide me how to do single title with multiple items/copies in MARC Edit software. Thanks and Regards R Sunil Kumar Library Technologist +91-9686576695 -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz Sent: 18 November 2011 01:04 To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Koha Digest, Vol 73, Issue 52 Send Koha mailing list submissions to koha@lists.katipo.co.nz To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to koha-request@lists.katipo.co.nz You can reach the person managing the list at koha-owner@lists.katipo.co.nz When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Koha digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Holds to Pull (Liz Rea) 2. Re: how to get the list of all records of a search result inISBD format (Adalid Ortiz) 3. Re: Getting error on Data Migration (Excel>MarcEdit>Koha) (Adalid Ortiz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:14:12 -0600 From: Liz Rea <lrea@nekls.org> To: Nora Blake <nblake@masslibsystem.org> Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Holds to Pull Message-ID: <8D24044F-9812-4E23-8D77-5B371860F748@nekls.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" This is NEKLS experience as well. The hold queue does a few things. 1. It has a cron job that runs periodically, regenerating the list. 2. The list is weighted based on a couple of system preferences. This becomes important in consortia where you might want one library to be preferred over another (to, say, keep a small library with a great collection from being utterly inundated with hold requests, for example) 3. The layout is a little nicer. Holds to Pull does the following: 1. Shows every hold across all libraries 2. Shows which libraries have copies of an item that can fill a hold (unlike the hold queue, which picks a specific library's item) 3. Is useful, but not in the same way as the hold queue. If it helps you frame it, in Sirsi the Hold Queue was similar functionality to the Pick List. If you accept the default cron job, the build_holds_queue cron will run every hour. NEKLS chooses (for various reasons) to run it only 3 times a day. We use the holds queue exclusively for managing our holds. I hope this helps. Liz Rea lrea@nekls.org On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Nora Blake wrote: the Holds Queue, it's my understanding that the Holds Queue is showing you titles that are for pickup at the branch you choose - can someone who knows the code please tell me what branch the Holds Queue is looking at. I wrote a report (http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#Holds_to_Pull_at_Br anch) to show the holds to pull list based on books owned by the library and it's on the wiki and it's what most people I train are using because the way I understand things is this:

- Holds Queue is all holds (regardless of whether they're checked out or

- Holds to Pull should be a list of all items on the shelf at your library

on the shelf) that need to be picked up at the branch that have holds on them that you need to pull to trigger the hold

In addition to helping Barbara, your answer will help me fix the manual to

make it clearer for all.

Nicole

2011/11/15 NCRL Support <support@ncrl.org> I would first like to say hello to everyone as this is my first post. We

are currently training with Nicole and have a go live date set for January 9th.

We are a multi-branch library system and would like to know how other

libraries are handling the "holds to pull" report.

Barbara Walters North Central Regional Library bwalters@ncrl.org | 509.679.5550

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