Circulating materials to carrels:
We have created patron records for our carrels. The patron barcodes for the
carrels are on a small flip file at the Circulation Desk. When we assign a
student to a carrel, we change the carrel record expiration date to the
appropriate day and add the person's name in the note field of the carrel
record. When a patron wishes to check out materials to a carrel, we scan the
patron barcode on our flip file for the corresponding carrel. We have a
separate loan rule just for carrel charges. Handling carrels this way simply
produces an ordinary due date in the OPAC. Some libraries like handling
carrel charges by changing item locations, but to me that seems like a much
more involved process than ours. Our Circ Desk staff recognize the carrel
loan rule number in the item record and can quickly determine where a book
checked out to a carrel is located if another patron requests it.
Routing materials to faculty:
We have a "Faculty Routing" patron record and a "Faculty Routing" loan rule.
The Faculty Routing patron type can check out all item types for a 3 month
loan period under the Faculty Routing loan rule. We typically do not send
Faculty Routing overdue notices, but rather renew these items as they come
due. For specific names of the faculty to whom a certain item is routed, we
rely upon the check-in record routing information. This system has worked
very well for us for nearly 4 years.
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