Re: The use of I-Types when setting up Millennium

[scorman at sdcpll dot org]

I-Types are for circulation purposes. We have 3 day, 7 day, overnight, loose-leaf, charts, audiocassettes, videotapes, etc. What this does is allow you to run statistics on types of materials. The I-Type works with the loan rule to determine circulation, fines, etc. We have some people who are charged fines, some who aren't (judges, trustees, full-time employees). The loan determiner table works with the p-type to determine this.

If you need more info, please contact me directly.

Sheila Corman

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Dear all,

We are currently beginning to implement III at Edge Hill and are having
some difficulty in working out how we can map across our current
practice to the new system.

I've got the I-type - P-type - Location - Loan rule thing (I think)
however at present we don't really use I-type as we don't have limits
set on how many types of one item a patron can borrow. We use the GMD's
to limit searching.

Can anyone tell me the benefits of using the I-type versus the GMD for
searching purposes, and if we do use I-type does it just have to be
circulating items (as opposed to non-circulating)..

We have 3 week, 1 week, 1 day, overnight and end of day loan lengths -
would we be better using these as item types? (Although if we have  5
copies of a book, they could all be on different loan lengths)..

I think the III example on CS Direct has confused me more than
anything!

Any help would be appreciated..

Mandy
Edge Hill
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