[Koha] Cataloging tables, chairs, etc.

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Mark,

as long as you only have a few items of one type,  I think what you
describe makes a lot of sense and it's how I've seen our libraries do it
as well. There often is an item type like "equipment" that can be
anything from a home planetarium to calculators or whiteboard markers.

Some also use the local cover feature to display photos of the items.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 26.12.19 19:03, Mark Alexander wrote:
> Our little library is planning to lend out things like folding tables, folding
> chairs, cake pans, tools, and all sorts of other equipment.  I'm trying
> to figure out the best way to set up circulation rules for these things.
>
> My initial thought was to minimize the number of items types, and hence
> circulations rules.  So we could have item types called "EQUIPMENT-3DAYS",
> "EQUIPMENT-1WEEK", and "EQUIPMENT-1MONTH", the names of which reflect
> how long the circulation period would be.  Then the various things
> we could lend out would fall into one of these buckets.  But this means
> that if a user was searching for items by item type in the OPAC, cake
> pans might be listed next to power drills, and so forth.  Maybe that's OK;
> I don't know.
>
> I was wondering how other libraries deal with this kind of thing.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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