RE: Circulating non-circulating items to faculty

["Somers, Michael" <msomers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a similar scenario at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
We have certain types of materials (for example, periodicals) that circulate
only to faculty and PhD students.  The periodicals at the main library have
a separate location and all periodicals have the same ITYPE.  Since the
faculty and PhD students have separate and distinct PTYPEs, we were
able to set up loan rules with the combination of location, ITYPE and PTYPE,
which allows them to circulate.  Otherwise, all other patron types are not
permitted to circulate such materials.

This method was easy to set up and works well.

Mike S.
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lesha Fossey [SMTP:L.Fossey@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:48 AM
> To:	INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Circulating non-circulating items to faculty
> 
> How about those items having a different IType rather than a different
> status?
> Then you could do one of 2 things:
> 
> either set up a loan rule which lets these items circulate and the rule 
> selection table so that the "faculty" ptype borrowing this itype goes to
> that 
> loan rule, but any other itypes borrowing this itype goes to the 
> "non-circulating" loanrule.
> 
> or, set up that IType as one of the categories A,B,C or D specified in the
> circ
> options, and in the automatic patron blocks table set it up so that the 
> "faculty" ptype CAN borrow that Itype, and the other ptypes can't borrow
> any.
> 
> Lesha
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:06:08 -0500 Mary Paige Smith
> <smithm@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> > We have been unable to come up with a solution to our problem, so we're
> > turning to the collective wisdom of our fellow INNOPACers!  Our law
> > library's circulation desk is often staffed by student assistants only,
> who
> > do not have authorization to override blocks.  During those times, if
> law
> > faculty bring non-circulating items (status o) to the desk, students are
> not
> > able to check the items out on Innopac, so they must resort to manually
> > filling out circulation cards to keep track of the items circulated to
> > faculty.  We tried modifying our loan rule determiners (Rule selection
> > table), so that faculty have the right to check out any item, regardless
> of
> > status.  However, when the item is returned, the system changes the
> status
> > to - (available).  We want the status to revert to o.
> > If anyone has figured out how to get around this problem, I would
> greatly
> > appreciate hearing from you.  TIA!
> > Mary Paige
> > 
> > Mary Paige Smith
> > Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services
> > Nova Southeastern University Libraries
> > Consolidated Technical Services
> > Nova Southeastern University Law Library
> > 3305 College Avenue
> > Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314
> > (954) 262-6213 (voice)
> > (954) 262-3840(FAX)
> > smithm@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:smithm@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> 
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> Lesha Fossey        
> Assistant Librarian, Circulation Services
> University of Exeter
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