Re: Course Reserves and Self Renew/Holds

[Alison Masterpasqua <amaster1 at swarthmore dot edu>]

We had the same issue here, but felt that self-renewal was worth changing 
our reserves loan rule.  At the reserve desk, students who want to renew 
something can have the book checked in and back out again.

At 12:44 PM 10/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> Hi all, please excuse the cross posting.
> Here at Wellesley College we would like to implement patron self renewals
> and holds online.  We are reluctant as it seems Innovative can only turn
> it on or off as a whole, i.e. we cannot exclude certain locations.
> We do not want patrons renewing or placing holds on course reserve items
> online. The only way it seems to stop them is to put in the loan rule that
> it is not renewable or holdable.  Yet we need to have the loan rules allow
> holds and renewals so staff may make these transactions.
> How do other institutes deal with this problem?  Are your reserves either
> non-renewable and holdable or is there something we are missing all
> together??
> Any of your experiences would be appreciated,
> Kara Stroschein
> __________________________
> Kara Stroschein
> Access Services Associate
> Wellesley College Science Library
> Wellesley, MA  02481
>
> Phone:  781-283-3083
>
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Alison Masterpasqua
Access & Lending Services Supervisor
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