[Koha] koha-circulation policies and patron restricions

[satish]

Hello Agnes,

I am into the role of developing a library from the scratch and we are
using Koha 3.6.2.
Currently we identified, 3 types of students (patron category) as follows.
1. General Student 2. Student from SC Community 3. Student from ST
Community.
and item type comprises only Books.  The collection comprises in only one
location.
1. General Stack 2. SC Book Bank 3. ST Book Bank.
And check-out criteria is as follows.
1. SC student can borrow max of 2 books from SC Book Bank ( for 1 semester)
+ 1 Book from General Stack ( for 15 days)
2. ST Student can borrow max of 2 books from ST Book Bank ( for 1 semester)
+ 1 Book from General STack ( 15 days)
3. General Student can borrow max of only 2 books (15 days) from General
Stack, and no books are allowed for checking out from SC and ST Book bank .


To work around, so for I tried to create, 3 item types - namely:
1. Books ( Default with koha) 2. SC Book Bank 3. ST Book Bank
and with the help of circulation rules, (item type and patron category),
load period and current checkouts have been updated accordingly and I am
feeling so happy after doing this.

Am I going in the right direction?? any other alternatives??

Thank You in advance.
Satish
Govt. Engg. College, Hassan
Karnataka, India.



On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca> wrote:

> Hello Satish
>
> Please state which version of Koha or Liblime Koha.
> Also, please explain how the different types of student are identified in
> Koha (patron categories?) and also how the different types of books are
> identified in Koha (item type? location? collection code?).
>
> Depending on the version and what data is in Koha some of this may be
> achieved using the circulation rules.
>
> Agnes
>
>
> On 12/02/2012 12:00 PM, satish wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have only one kind of patron's  (student's) database with the library,
>> and depends on the collection/library ( from general stack, SC book bank)
>> patrons will be having restrictions to number of books to be borrowed and
>> also the due -date attached to it.
>>
>> Our scenario is:
>> eg: General category student can take  only  1 book  from General Stack
>> and
>> due date is for 15 days and not from any other stack.
>> where as, SC category student can take 2 books from SC book bank for 3
>> months and also 1 book from General stack for 15 days.
>>
>> How to restrict patrons from checking out books from particular
>> collection?
>>
>> How to achieve this?
>> Thank you in Advance
>> Satish
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