Suspending a Borrower’s Circulation Rights

If a borrower has items that are overdue, in addition to charging fines, you can suspend that borrower’s circulation rights..

If a borrower’s circulation rights are suspended, circulation staff cannot override the suspension and check out items to that borrower.

To suspend a borrower’s circulation rights

1 Set up the Days of Suspension circulation privilege. (For instructions, see Setting Up or Editing a Circulation Privilege.)
2 In the Default field, enter the number of days for which you want Horizon to suspend a borrower’s circulation privileges.

Note: Even if you designate an hour or minute time period for the default or exception unit, Horizon suspends circulation rights for a number of days.

The number you enter is multiplied by the number of days that the item is overdue. (For example, if borrower suspension is set at “5” and an item is three days overdue, Horizon suspends borrowing privileges for three times five, or fifteen, days.)

If you do not want to implement circulation suspension for borrowers with overdue items, enter “0” (zero).

3 If you want to create or edit any exceptions, do these steps in the Special Values group:
a Choose the exception that you want to change, or create a new exception.
b Enter or choose a code in one or more of the location, borrower type, or item type group fields.
c In the Value field, enter the number of days for the suspension exception you want to apply.

Note: The exception value set here overrides the default value for this parameter.

4 Save your changes.

 


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