[Wactclc-alma] Waive overdue fines once lost

[Thomas, Kirsti]

That's part of why we got rid of overdue fees on everything except reserves and equipment.

Alma really, really doesn't want you putting a lot of conditional scenarios in your fulfillment policies.

Our students and our circ staff are much happier not having to deal with overdue fines for regular materials.  If you're just going to waive them, why bother with them to begin with?   Cut out the middle man and make everyone's lives easier. :)

Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu

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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Guidry, Wade
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The closest thing is the fulfillment general setting "overdue_at_lost_loan"

But this setting just determines if overdue fines continue to accrue once an item is declared lost, or if the overdue fines stop at that point.

So, you could limit the damage of overdues on lost loans by setting that to 'true'.

But it looks like you're already doing that.



Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager
Big Bend Community College
mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu
509.760.4474
http://www.bigbend.edu/ 
Big Bend Community College . 7662 Chanute Street NE . Moses Lake, WA 98837-3299

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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Lesley Caldwell
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This might be pie-in-the-sky, or maybe it's something very obvious that I just missed.

We don't want to double penalize students. Once an item goes missing, we manually waive any overdue fines and leave them with the lost item replacement fee.

Is there a way to automate this in Alma so we don't have to manually waive the fines? Perhaps an if-then set-up where being charged an item replacement fee automatically cancels overdue fines?

Thanks!

Lesley Caldwell 
Systems and Instruction Librarian
Pierce College
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253-840-8420
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1601 39th Ave SE, Puyallup, WA 98374
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