2009/12/21 Stacy Pober <stacy.pober@manhattan.edu>:

In the catalog viewed by patrons, some of our Koha records for electronic books display "Place Hold" in the Action category and some of them do not.

See the following search results for an example: <http://man.waldo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=NETLIBRARY+digital+business>

The MARC fields are different for these records as some were loaded recently and some were migrated from Voyager.

The record for "Doing business in a digital world" is an example of a book that shows the "Place Hold" action, and for an example of a record that does not show the "Place Hold" as an available action, see: "Architectural issues of Web-enabled electronic business".

Since we have no way for patrons to place holds on ebooks from Koha, it would be good if the records for ebooks didn't have this option displayed.

What MARC field/subfield data is used to deterimine whether the "Place Hold" action is or is not available for a particular record?

Koha uses a matrix, itemtype - patrontype - library/branch to define issuing and hold rules. So in Koha you would go to Administration, then fines and circulation rules. You would end up at a URL like http://your.staff.site/cgi-bin/koha/admin/smart-rules.pl And in the reserves allowed(count) column for the itemtype of your ebooks you would put 0, that would mean no one could place a hold a hold on it. You could allow only holds for certain patron types, or certain branches/libraries or a combination. Once again I'm afraid I have no idea how LEK does it. Liblime may or may not have ported this feature from Koha over. Chris