[IUG] patron can renew own items

["Dillie, Thomas" <TDillie at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us>]

	Quick question that I hope someone has direct experience with.  Right now at GCPL we allow patrons to renew their own items through the OPAC as long as those items are not overdue.  (As described on page #101912 of the manual, we have selected option 2.) Page 101254 says "Note that the system will allow a patron to use this function to renew an overdue item, providing no fine or demerit points would be assessed, and no overdue or recall notice has been sent to the patron for this item."  Does that mean that since we charge fines on items as soon as they are one day overdue, i.e., no grace period, that even if we were to change our procedure and allow patrons to renew their own overdue items(option 3 on page 101912), then Millennium still won't let them renew, because to do so will also generate a fine? And to continue, we send the first notice at 3 days overdue; the sentence quoted above seems to say that sending the notice also will block a patron from self-renewing an overdue item.  Do I understand that correctly? 

Thanks,
Tom Dillie, Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
P.O. Box 26
20 S. Miller St.
Cedarville OH 45314
937-766-4511
tdillie at gcpl dot lib dot oh dot us

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