Working with Parameter 29 (Request Privileges)

 

Although examples in this section deal with hold requests, the same general concepts of grouping apply to setting up all circulation parameters and privileges.

Some sites have a large number of locations, with groups of locations that are related in some way. This relationship may be geographic. (For example, a library system might have branches in several cities, with multiple locations in each city. The library system might allow filling holds for locations within the same city [the same branch], but not between branches in different cities.)

The relationship may be by library type. (For example, in a consortium of both academic and public libraries, the academic libraries may have related requirements while the public libraries have a different set of related requirements.) You can set up locations, ITYPEs, and BTYPEs, and group them if they have related requirements. This lets you make fewer exceptions for each parameter.

This section gives several examples of how Horizon handles various parameter 29 settings. It also explains these topics:

 


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