If your library is a member of a consortium, the member libraries may share borrower information from a single shared database rather than copying borrower information to the local database of each library. The Shared Borrower database resides on a single server to which all consortium libraries connect. You can share a borrower database only if each member library’s bibliographic database resides on the same server as the Shared Borrower database. However, each library’s bibliographic database can be maintained separately.
To set up a Shared Borrower database, contact your Horizon implementation team.
When your library uses a Shared Borrower database, Horizon automatically assigns a shared borrower type (Shared BType) to each borrower record created by any member library. You can identify patrons of consortium libraries by their shared borrower type location when they borrow from libraries other than their own. The libraries who share the borrower database set up parameters for the shared borrower type, including its name.
If a borrower is not a primary user in your library, you can override the circulation parameters defined by the shared BTYPE. You do this by assigning a local BTYPE of your own that establishes general circulation rules for that borrower for your library. (For more information, see “Defining a Borrower Circulation Type [BTYPE]” in the “Setting Up Horizon to Work with Borrower Records” section of the Circulation Setup Guide.)
To add a new borrower to a Shared Borrower database
1 | Open the Checkout or the Checkin/Request Processing window. |
2 | Choose Borrower, New Borrower. |
Horizon displays an Edit New Borrower window:
3 | Enter the information appropriate to your customized window. (For instructions, see the tables of borrower record fields in Adding a New Borrower Record.) |
Note: If your library has customized the Edit New Borrower window, the fields may appear in a different order or have different labels. Enter the information appropriate to your customized window using the tables as a general guide.
4 | Save your changes. |
Horizon displays the borrower's name in the Checkout window.
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