About Borrower and Item Records

Borrower records contain information about all borrowers who are registered to use the library. This can include borrowers at affiliated or branch libraries. Horizon lets you set up your library so that borrowers whose main account is at a branch library can use library resources in other locations.

In general, the borrower record contains this information:

Borrower type.
Borrower address.
Borrower’s barcode.
Additional information for tracking borrower activity.

Your system administrator sets defaults that affect how Horizon uses borrower records. (For example, the system administrator sets Circulation to ask for an address check after a specified amount of time, or to let a borrower’s registration expire periodically, so that updated information can be added to a borrower record.) You can add new fields and change fields on a borrower record. You can also change or replace the barcode on a borrower’s record and card, and set up proxy borrowers if the borrower wants to let others use his or her library account.

During checkout or checkin, you can edit certain item information (such as barcode, due date, or due time) or add notes to the item record for items that the borrower has checked out. If you want to want to change the item status for several items at once, you can use the Item Group Editor-Status Only process.

 


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