If this is your first time using Media Scheduling software, you need to plan how you want to use Media Scheduling at your library. If you do not already have specific library policies concerning media-related items, you and your library staff need to consider these types of issues:
• | The definition of a “media item.” |
For example, if you have a separate media center in your library, you may choose to classify all items related to media as “media items” including video tapes and sound recordings. Or, you may choose to classify only media equipment, such as CD players, TVs, and VCRs, as media items.
• | Which media items you want borrowers to be able to search for in PAC. |
For example, you may want to let all borrowers search for only certain media items, but allow only library staff to search for and schedule expensive equipment, such as TVs or VCRs.
• | Circulation privileges for media items. |
For example, you may want to let borrowers use video tapes for two weeks, but let them use VCRs for only three hours.
Just as Horizon helps you implement your general library circulation policies, Horizon helps you implement your policies for media items.
For example, you can separate Media Scheduling items (items scheduled only through Media Scheduling) from other media items by creating a new library location in Horizon where specific items will be accessible.
You also set up a separate media collection, and choose the hours during which media items can be circulated.
To learn more about how Horizon helps you implement your library’s media-related policies, you may want to read through the remainder of this chapter before you begin setting up Media Scheduling.
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Setting Up Media Circulation Privileges
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