Holds not wanted before option & paging

["McClellan Jr., Michael C." <MMcClellan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Staff have raised a question about the new "Not wanted before" option on
holds placed through circulation that is now available with Release
2000.  They noticed that the system paged an item even though they had
placed a not wanted before date for sometime in the future.  So when the
item arrived and was checked in, the system did not trap it for the hold
as it's not an active hold at that point.  

So the obvious questions are "Will the system generate another paging
slip for the item when the not wanted before date passes" and "Is there
a way to block paging in this scenario"?  If you select the option to
place the hold and not print a paging slip, then you would seem to have
an active hold that does not generate a paging slip.

If this is how this option works, then it would appear to be helpful
only when all copies are checked out and you can thus place a Copy
Returned Soonest hold with the Not wanted before date in place.  

For libraries that use paging this will mean additional work pulling
material that is not needed and then dealing with patrons who inquire
why their item never arrived.

I'm wondering if anyone else noticed this problem and had done any
testing before I start setting up my own tests to see what happens. 

Mike McClellan
Minneapolis Public Library
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN   55401
612-630-6042
mmcclellan@xxxxxxxxxx