[Wactclc-alma] 1 year long loans

[Guidry, Wade]

Naoko,

Auto-renewal of loans is a good idea, but I don’t think it would work in this case.

The auto-renewal due date is not going to be able to “leap frog” the patron expiration date. You’d need a way to auto-extend the expiration date, which the patron load process can do. But it generally does it for all users. This scenario would require custom treatment of certain users.

Do you know the particular use-case here? Are these students in a particular class or program? Or faculty in a particular department? If those users could be identified as a group via the nightly patron extract, based on a class enrollment or something, a longer expiration date could set for those users.


My other thought I have about 1 year loans for laptops would be the conversation currently happening over on librarydir. The discussion there is about libraries *not* being able to get their laptops back.

Maybe that hasn’t been an issue at Highline. But libraries are reporting high rates laptop non-returns. Is IT sure it wants 1 year loan periods?  And is the library? Since the “getting-the-laptop-back” problem would become the library’s, if the library is the one doing the circulation. (Or maybe you have a IT service or media desk set up in Alma, that IT uses?)










Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474
http://www.wactclc.org<http://www.wactclc.org/>

From: Wactclc-alma <wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu> On Behalf Of Yasuda, Naoko
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 2:39 PM
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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] 1 year long loans

Hi all,

Does anyone offer year-long loans for any of the materials the library checks out? Our IT asked us to catalog laptops that can be checked out for a year with the due date of 6/30/22. However, the expiration date in most of our user records is 3 months out, and I know we can't check out any item past the expiration date, regardless of TOUs. I'm wondering if the only way to allow year-long loans is to extend the expiration date to a year out? Or can I set up an auto loan renewal rule to allow the loan to renew automatically until 6/30/22, in which case I don't have to extend the expiration date to 6/30/22?

I'd appreciate any information you could share!

Thank you,
Naoko
Highline College
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