Re: Increase fines if item recalled

[Nancy Helmick <helmick.1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear David,

We have no daily fines, but any patron who fails to return a recalled book 
within 10 days is fined $10.00 per day up to a max of $100.00.  As Candace 
notes, this is accomplished by
inserting
         10 in loan rule element 15 > TIME RETURN RECALL.
          $0 in loan rule element 41 > AMOUNT OF FINE 1st F PER
         $10 in loan rule element 47 > FINE INCR IF RECALL

We increased this from $1 daily ($25 max) to $10 daily ($100 max) after 
discovering that students found it was cheaper to pay a $25 fine than it 
was to buy a text book.

Nancy Helmick
Ohio State University Libraries
helmick.1@xxxxxxxxxx


From: David Gardiner <d.j.gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'innopac@xxxxxxxxxx'" <innopac@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Increase fines if item recalled
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:20:06 +0100
Reply-To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx

Does anyone have a loan rule with no fine for nornal overdue, but a fine on
recall? I'm trying to do this using FINE INCR IF RECALL but now wondering if
you have to have a value to increase from before it'll work?

Many thanks for your assistance

David
David Gardiner
Manager, Lending & Enquiry Services
Information Services
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4 LA
01786 467221
d.j.gardiner@xxxxxxxxxx



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