RE: hourly loan rule question

[Alison Masterpasqua <amaster1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm assuming that what you want to do is allow things to only go out 
overnight and have them due the same time each day. This is somewhat 
complicated and difficult to explain so feel free to get back to me with 
specific questions or for more explanation.

The Hours Open table is used to control hourly loan rules.  Items are due 1 
hour after the open time.  We want our Honors reserve books (location 
smhon) to be due 1pm Monday thru Saturday so we set the open time at 
1200.  On Sunday we want them due at 4pm, so we have 1500 as the open 
time.  Setting the closing time is a bit more complicated since it depends 
on when your library actually opens and closes and the number of hours in 
the loan rule. (We had to readjust the parameters a couple of years ago 
when we changed our library's closing time from midnight to 1am.) You want 
it to work so that when a patron goes to check out a reserve item, Tripod 
thinks the library is closed and therefore gives a due date for the next 
day.  I've put the parameters we have set up so that you can compare them 
to your situation.
   Our hours open table looks like this:
                                            OPEN       CLOSE
67 >   smhon     ???             1200          2000
68 >   smhon     sat             1200          1800
69 >   smhon     sun             1500          2400

And this is the loan rule:
01 > NAME                        S Honors
02 > CODE                        J
03 > NORMAL LOAN PERIOD          11

Our actual library hours are
Mon-Thurs 8am-1am
Fri 8am-10pm
Sat 10am-6pm
Sun 12pm-1am

You may need to play around with this, so create a test patron and a test 
item record.  Then try checking it out a different times of the day.

At 12:31 PM 4/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>hi..could you share this with all of us? i'm interested in how you did 
>your setup for this and i'm sure others would appreciate being 
>educated.  corinne
>
>Corinne Caputo
>Technical Services Librarian/Systems
>Westminster College
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alison Masterpasqua [mailto:amaster1@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:21 PM
>To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: hourly loan rule question
>
>
>Dear Barbara,
>
>You can use a combination of closed and open hours and a separate location
>along with the standard hourly loan rule to create a set due time.  We use
>this with a certain class of reserve items that are always due at 1pm the
>following day.  If you are interested in details, email me directly and I
>will share our setup with you.
>
>At 12:16 PM 4/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >Has anyone come up with a good way to circulate material on an hourly
> >basis and establish a set time for the due "date"?  My initial guess would
> >be trying to figure out a way to set up a macro in Millennium to override
> >the due date, if I can figure out how to tell the system to use tomorrow
> >and some set time for this.  I just can't see overriding these manually
> >every time as a reasonable way to accomplish this.
> >
> >and yes, I will be submitting an enhancement request for a fixed due date
> >hourly loan rule that would be the hourly equivalent of the absolute due
> >date that is now available.
> >thanks,
> >Barb
> >
> >Barbara J. Anderson
> >Library Systems Specialist
> >Kelvin Smith Library
> >Case Western Reserve University
> >11055 Euclid Ave.
> >Cleveland, OH 44106-7151
> >
> >bja9@xxxxxxxxxx
> >(voice) 216-368-2666
> >(fax) 216-368-6506
> >
> >
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>Alison Masterpasqua
>Access & Lending Services Supervisor
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Alison Masterpasqua
Access & Lending Services Supervisor
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