[Koha] Circulation rule by location

[Chris Hoebeke]

I have never seen an ILS that uses Location for circulation rules, but I 
have always thought it was better than Item type . To the patron, a book 
is a book, but when staff need to change the loan period for a certain 
category of books, they have to create a new item type, such as 
'REF-BOOK.' In large libraries, the extension of item types in the 
Advanced Search options can become so large that it's meaningless for 
end users who just want to limit a search to a "Book"

Materials grouped together on the shelves tend to have the same loan 
period, but I have not seen that as a circ map component in any of the 
systems I've worked with in nearly three decades.

It would be a nice feature.


Chris Hoebeke
Librarian & Head, Information Technology Services
World Maritime Univerity

On 6/26/19 10:22 PM, Katrin Fischer wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> at the moment circulation conditions can be tied to combinations of
> library, patron category and item types only. Locations cannot be used.
>
> Katrin
>
> On 26.06.19 21:39, Coehoorn, Joel wrote:
>> Is it possible to have a circulation rule that targets location? In the
>> past, we've had a diarrhea of item types to encode both a location 
>> and the
>> kind of item, and this really isn't ideal. We'd like to revise our
>> circulation rules to target locations, and therefore simplify our item
>> types.
>>
>> Joel Coehoorn
>> Director of Information Technology
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>>
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