[Koha] FW: [EXTERNAL] Re: Circulation rule for Collection.

[King, Fred]

You have a point, but one of the wonderful things about Koha is that it's infinitely configurable. When I set up Koha about ten years ago, I didn't quite know what I was doing, so I made reference, reserve, and circulating books different item types because that was the only way I could think of making different circulations rules for each group. (Still is, I think.) We're a small library, we're not part of a consortium, and in our case it doesn't really matter if a book's item type is Book or Reference. Our system makes things easier for us, and that's what really matters.

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From: Koha <koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Coehoorn, Joel
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2023 12:05 PM
To: SATISH <lis4satish at gmail.com>
Cc: Rupinder Singh <jessedhammu at gmail.com>; Koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Koha] Circulation rule for Collection.



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This is unfortunate, because fundamentally REF is **not** an item type.
Rather, the items here are still things like books, DVDs, serials, etc, and needing to code them as REF to control circulation means Koha forces us to overwrite that information from the normal location in those records.

*Joel Coehoorn*
Director of Information Technology
*York University*
Office: 402-363-5603 | jcoehoorn at york.edu | york.edu



On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 3:23 AM SATISH <lis4satish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Rounder,
>
>
> Do create Item Type called 'REF' and using edit items in batch option, 
> re-assign corresponding barcodes to Item type 'REF'. That is very 
> simple way to define circulation rule.
> Collection code not used to the same.
>
> -satish
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