[Wactclc-alma] Overnight reserves

[Sally Sheedy]

Hi all,

We have 2-hour reserve items that can circulate overnight if they're checked out within the last 2 hours of the day. That is, the terms indicate that if the due date/time is when the library is closed, the items become due when the library opens. Then we have a 2 hour grace period, because we don't want the overnight items due the very first thing - a student might otherwise have to come in well before the first class to avoid fines.

Staff have recently been overriding a lot of earlier circs to be overnight and they find that onerous. After some discussions by others, I've been asked to have these items circulate as 2-hour items up until 3pm but then switch to overnight (already happening in summer since we close at 5pm). Starting fall, we go back to closing at 9pm four days a week; how do I get an item to switch from 2-hour to overnight six hours before closing? I think this is a case of "you can't get there from here."

In the academic year we close at 5pm on Fridays, and are open from noon to 4pm on Saturdays. I don't quite know what we'd want to have happen with these materials on those days, but I'll see first if what they want so far is possible.

Anyone have ideas?

Thanks.
-Sally

Sally Sheedy
Systems Librarian
Whatcom Community College Library
237 West Kellogg Road
Bellingham, WA 98226
360-383-3287  (library 3300, college 3000)
ssheedy at whatcom.edu
library.whatcom.edu

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