[Koha] Home Location and Its Purpose

[Owen Leonard]

>  So the question is really what are the purpose and use of the
> CURRENT LOCATION as opposed to the PERMANENT LOCATION.

"Location" refers to shelving location within a library. Koha has
various ways to manage temporary shelving locations and they require a
corresponding permanent location. For instance, in the documentation
on authorized values:

"CART: Is the shelving cart location, used by
InProcessingToShelvingCart and ReturnToShelvingCart
PROC: The location to be used for NewItemsDefaultLocation (change
description as desired), also the location expected by
InProcessingToShelvingCart."
https://koha-community.org/manual/20.05/en/html/administration.html?highlight=cart#existing-values

See this cron job:
"Script path: misc/cronjobs/cart_to_shelf.pl: Does: updates all items
with a location of CART to the item’s permanent location."
https://koha-community.org/manual/20.05/en/html/cron_jobs.html?highlight=cart#in-processing-book-cart

  -- Owen

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