[Koha] Available items limiter: No Result found ! - CommonProblem

[Ian Walls]

Thanks, Kurt, for sharing your experience with this!

I've submitted a bug report for this issue:
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4481, for those
interested in tracking it.


-Ian

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Kurt Bodling <kbodling at mountvernon.org>wrote:

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> >Also also, perhaps it would be good to distinguish between available for
> checkout vs. available for use.  For libraries with large non-circulating
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> This was a concern at our place, too. Since I’m not (yet) a coder, I came
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> OPAC field labeled “Item type” and the 942 $c controls what appears in the
> OPAC field labeled “Status” (which I had to discover by trial-and-error
> since I didn’t see it in any documentation).  Here’s how we handled it:
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> We have an Item Type called “Books”.  And another Item Type called “Book
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> When I create a Bib Record for a book I make sure that the Item Type in the
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> The OPAC then shows the user: ‘Item Type’ “Book” and ‘Status’ “Available”.
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> BUT if the copy is meant only to be ‘available for use’ [e.g., a reference
> room copy], then the Item Record 952 $y is “Book (Non-Circulating)”.
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> In that case, the OPAC displays for the user: ‘Item Type’ “Book
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> This gets the words “non-circulating” before our users, but tells them it
> IS available [for use]; and because the “Book (Non-Circulating)” type is
> created to be Not for Loan, our circulation system won’t let these reference
> copies be checked out as it otherwise would.  This has been helpful when we
> have one copy of an item in open stacks and another copy in reference.
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> Kurt Bodling
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