[Koha] Using KOHA for textbooks?

[Anna Kågedal]

Hi,

Is anyone using KOHA for textbooks?

We have been using KOHA for our schools library books since July and
it works well. We are now planning to import our textbooks as well, so
that we have everything in one system.

However - I suddenly got nervous. Is this a good idea? Anyone have
experience with this?

For example - the global due date that you can set in KOHA towards the
end of a semester - will then affect all books in all libraries if I
am correct? Or is there a way to put a global due date for only one
library? This is because we always have one final date to return books
for the semester for library books, and another for textbooks. And if
I then set at global due date for the library books - that will affect
the duedate for textbooks as well.


Another thing that I've been thinking about:
Check out date - you would have to specify a due date (since it can't
be a certain loan period for textbooks, since it is actually a
specific date when all textbooks needs to be back, regardless of when
it was checked out) and click "remember for session" for every student
that you check out books to if .  Or is there a way to set "remember
for session" - meaning - as long as I am logged in or unclick the
button - and not as it is now - as long as this is the same patron?
(Note: we check out all the textbooks to 600 students in 4 days - it
gets VERY busy - and several small time thieves will severely slow us
down.)

Our plan was to create a specific library for textbooks, and combine
that with a textbook itemtype. The barcodes are also different, and at
the moment we don't have a Shelving location for textbooks.

Finally I'd like to take the opportunity now to thank all of you who
has answered my questions in the past and who answers in the future.

Anna

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Anna Kågedal
Kodaikanal International School
Seven Roads Junction
Kodaikanal 624101
Tamil Nadu, India
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