OPTION FOR TRANSACTING LIBRARY LOAN RULE TO APPLY

["Brenda K. Giovanneillo" <brenda at alisnet dot info>]

Good morning all:

ALIS is a former DRA consortium.  On DRA, the loan rule of 
the transacting library governed all circulation 
transactions for items regardless of their owning agency.  
There was no choice.

When we migrated to III, the exact opposite was true - the 
loan rule of the owning library applied to all circulation 
transactions.

Now in Silver we find there is an option as to which loan 
rule governs.

Have any of you chosen to use the option where the loan rule 
of the transacting library governs?  The doc is so specific 
that this option applies to items sent to remote locations 
to satisfy holds that I need to be sure exactly how this 
option would affect circulation if we chose it.

Does it really only apply when items are being checked out 
at the pickup location to satisfy a hold?  Or does it apply 
more generally that any item checked out anywhere circulated 
under the transacting library's rules?

If a patron from library A borrows items from library B and 
then returns them to library C, (no hold involved) and they 
are overdue, would library C's loan rule apply or library 
B's?

We are very concerned that we understand how this might 
affect direct reciprocal borrowing transactions as well as 
holds...

Thank you all.

Brenda
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Brenda K. Giovanneillo
ALIS Consortium Director
Nassau County, Long Island, New York
516.292.8920  ext. 241
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