[Koha] Circulation and Fines Rules

[Nicole Engard]

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.


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Nicole C. Engard
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Ruth Vargas <ruth.vargas at 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 at HCLibrary.org
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