<div>Thanks, Kurt, for sharing your experience with this!</div><div><br></div>I've submitted a bug report for this issue: <a href="http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4481">http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4481</a>, for those interested in tracking it.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Kurt Bodling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbodling@mountvernon.org">kbodling@mountvernon.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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would be good to distinguish between available for checkout vs. available for
use. For libraries with large non-circulating collections, this
distinction becomes increasingly important. </p>
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was a concern at our place, too. Since I’m not (yet) a coder, I came up with a
kind of workaround that </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">works because the 952 $y displays in the 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). </span><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s how we handled it:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">We have an Item Type called “Books”. And another Item Type
called “Book (Non-Circulating)”. Only the second one was created to be “Not
for Loan.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">When I create a Bib Record for a book I make sure that the Item
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">If the copy is meant to be ‘available for checkout’ then the
Item Type in the Item Record 952 $y is also “Book”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The OPAC then shows the user: ‘Item Type’ “Book” and ‘Status’ “Available”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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)”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">In that case, the OPAC displays for the user: ‘Item Type’ “Book
(Non-Circulating)” and ‘Status’ “Available”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
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