RE: Issue of overdue notices and closed days

["Ciszek, Matthew" <mciszek at udc dot edu>]

Colin,

My recollection on how the system determines the due date of an item is
as follows (and I confirmed it with User's Manual record 102213):

Due dates are computed at time of CHECK-OUT and do not get recomputed if
the Library Parameters or coding of the item or patron records are
changed before the item is checked back in. The system does NOT
recalculate due dates on items that have been checked out when
parameters changes have been made.

In other words, if you did NOT have the dates listed in Days Closed at
the time of CHECK-OUT, and then added the dates in question to the Days
Closed table before the due date, the items would STILL be due on the
dates in question even though they were listed in the Days Closed table.

Someone please correct me if my understanding of the manual and how the
Circulation Module works is incorrect, but I think that this is a good
reason to add Days Closed to the table well in advance.

Just my 2 cents!

Matt Ciszek

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Matthew P. Ciszek, MLS
Circulation Librarian
Charles N. and Hilda H. M. Mason Law Library
The University of the District of Columbia
David A. Clarke School of Law Library
4200 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

mciszek at udc dot edu
(202) 274-7357
http://www.law.udc.edu/library 
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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Colin Rennie
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:14 AM
To: INNOPAC at innopacusers dot org
Subject: Issue of overdue notices and closed days

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to query the relationship between closed days and the 
issue of notices.

During the Christmas break we decided to make 23 Dec to 3 Jan 
closed days.
When we printed our overdue notices after the Christmas break we 
were puzzled at the quantity - about 300 bills were printed.
It seems that the time schedule to issue notices found in "Loan 
Rules" did not take into account our closed days schedule.

I would have thought that the calculation to send overdue notices 
would have been suspended during the closed days period, but 
instead books due back on the 22 Dec had already incurred a bill 
by 4 Jan even though we closed during that period of time.

Has anyone experienced similar? Surely closed days should not 
be counted when the system is calculating when to send out 
notices.

Just to add a bit of spice we had an unexpected power failure for a 
couple of days on 21-22 Dec and I know this may have called 
some instability to the system and might be the cause of our 
problem, but I dont want to make the helpdesk's life that easy! Any 
thoughts anyone?

Many thanks
Colin


Colin Rennie
Systems Librarian
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
London
WC1H 0XG

020 7898 4191
cr22 at soas dot ac dot uk




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