When an item in your library has a large number of hold requests, you can have Horizon shorten the item’s loan period so that the item can circulate more frequently. This gives more borrowers the opportunity to check out your more popular items.
Horizon lets you specify the total number of unfilled requests that can be in an item’s request queue before the loan period override takes effect. It also lets you specify the length of the shortened loan period. Both of these settings are required to use the loan period override feature.
For example, suppose you set the request queue length at 30 and the loan period override at 7 days. A requested item has a default loan period of 14 days. When the total number of requests in the request queue exceeds 30 and a borrower checks out a requested item, Horizon uses the loan period override and checks out the item to the borrower for the override loan period of 7 days instead of the default. Horizon also notifies the staff during checkout that the loan period has been shortened so that the staff member can inform the borrower.
You can define exceptions for loan period override parameters by setting values for ITYPE groups, BTYPE groups, and location groups, or combinations of the three.
This section explains these topics:
• | Setting the Length of the Request Queue |
• | Setting the Loan Period Override |
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