Setting Up a Bookable ITYPE

You must create a bookable ITYPE for items that you want to let users book in advance. Once you create the ITYPE, you must assign it to all of the item records that you want to allow users to book in advance.

Instead of flagging all items of a single type (such as books) as bookable, you can create subsets of a type. This lets you create some ITYPEs that can be booked, some that cannot be booked. For example, in addition to a normal ITYPE for books, you might create these other book ITYPEs: “bk_non” as books that can be booked but not overnight; “bk_on” as books that can be booked overnight; and “non_bk” as books that cannot be booked.

To set up a bookable ITYPE

1 Log in to your Horizon database.
2 Open or create an ITYPE for items that you want to let users book in advance. (For instructions, see Defining an Item Circulation Type (ITYPE).)
3 Mark the Bookable box to make items using this ITYPE bookable in advance.
4 If your advanced booking items have an hourly due time that may extend past the closing time of the library, do one of these options for the Take Overnight? check box:
If you want to let borrowers keep an item that would be due after closing time until after the library reopens, mark this box.
If hourly items must be returned before closing regardless of the hourly rate, do not mark this box.
5 Add this ITYPE to all item records for items that you want to let users book in advance. (For instructions on editing an item record, see “Using the Item Group Editor” or “Editing Item Group Records” in the “Item and Copy Records” chapter of the Circulation Guide.)
6 Set up the circulation privileges for Advanced Booking. (For instructions, see Setting Up Circulation Privileges for Advanced Booking.)

 


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