<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<font face="Tahoma">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I'm from Howard County Library, Maryland and am new to the list. My
library is scheduled to go live with Koha in mid-December and I have
lots of questions related to setup and understanding how the software
works in a real environment in order to make wise decisions about
parameters and system preferences. I hope this is the right forum for
this type of inquiry and that I won't become too much of a pest, but
your combined wisdom will be invaluable, I'm sure.<br>
<br>
I'm currently working on Circulation and Fines Rules. At the bottom of
the page in Koha it says: </font><i>For this library, you can specify
the maximum number of loans that a patron of a given category can make,
regardless of the item type. </i>The column to enter number of loans
is labeled Total Current Checkouts Allowed.<br>
<font face="Tahoma"><br>
Does this mean:<br>
</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Tahoma">Number of items checked out during this
checkout session only?</font></li>
<li><font face="Tahoma">Total number of items the patron can have
checked out at one time? In our current system we have doubled the
single checkout session figure so the patron isn't stopped at checkout
if s/he returns items upon entering the library that have not yet been
checked in.</font></li>
</ul>
Thanks for your assistance on the first of many (simple) questions I
have.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Ruth<br>
<br>
Ruth Vargas -- Software Systems Manager, Information Technology<br>
Howard County Library voice: 410.313.7923<br>
10375 Little Patuxent Parkway fax: 410.313.7864<br>
Columbia, MD, USA 21044 email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ruth.vargas@HCLibrary.org">ruth.vargas@HCLibrary.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://aquabrowser.hclibrary.org">http://aquabrowser.hclibrary.org</a><br>
<br>
</body>
</html>