Circulation Basics

Each Horizon Circulation process helps you with different aspects of your circulation workflow. (For example, you maintain borrower records and check out books in the Open CKO Window process; you create and print reports in Circulation Reports.) The tasks you do in Circulation help you manage how borrowers use your library.

This workflow example follows an item from checkout until the item is listed as missing. Of course, not all checked out items will follow this sequence. A borrower may wish to renew an item, for example, which would cause Circulation to generate a new due date.

Figure 1-1: Item workflow

Your system administrator creates information circulation types (ITYPEs) and borrower circulation types (BTYPEs) to manage Circulation. ITYPEs and BTYPEs interact with circulation parameters and other settings to determine loan periods, due dates, overdue dates and fines, and other necessary circulation functions.

This section explains these topics:

 


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