[Koha] Reference books & books for loan

[Kathy Rippel]

To build on Ian's answer....

Many of our libraries use an item-type of "ref" and also one like "book".

You can set up your circulation rules for each so 
that the program knows whether or not to 
circulate the item. If you want patrons to know 
at a glance which are "Reference", then put 
something in the call number (or Shelving 
Location) like R, Ref, Reference, etc.

Kathy

At 08:30 AM 6/12/2009, Walls, Ian wrote:
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>You’ll need to assign your non-circulating books 
>to one Item Type, and your circulating books to 
>another (you could use more Item Types if you 
>need to make more distinctions for statistical 
>purposes).  If you do not want to burden your 
>patrons with this distinction in the OPAC, you 
>can then define a CCODE (in Authorized Values) 
>for Books, assign both circulating and 
>non-circulating books to that CCODE, and switch 
>the AdvancedSearchTypes system preference (in 
>the Searching tab) from ‘itemtypes’ to ‘ccode’.
>
>This is assuming you aren’t already using CCODE for something else

>
>Hope this helps,
>
>
>Ian Walls
>Systems Integration Librarian
>NYU Health Sciences Libraries
>(212) 263-8687
>
>
>
>From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz 
>[mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Ondrej Mlecka
>Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:49 AM
>To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>Subject: [Koha] Reference books & books for loan
>
>In our library, there's a big part of books 
>which a patron can read inside of the library 
>but which are not available for loan. There's 
>another part of the library which contains books 
>for loan. I would like to ask how is it possible 
>to distinguish these categories in Koha.
>
>If I simply check the "Not for loan" field for 
>items which are for referene only, the OPAC 
>search summary displays "No copies available" 
>(but they are available, but not for loan).
>
>I could also define that for ex. that books are 
>not for loan (in the "Item types and 
>circulation" settings). But in this case I can't 
>distinguish books which are for loan.
>
>Would anyone know how to resolve this difficulty?
>
>Thanks
>
>Ondrej Mleca
>Casa Balthasar
>Roma
>
>
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Kathleen D. Rippel
Dept. Head/Consultant--Resource Sharing and Access ;
Pathfinder Central (Manager)
Central Kansas Library System
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