Summary
Circulation is arguably the most important function in a library. In this chapter, we learned:
- How to map a library's policies to Koha's rules and system preferences.
- Patron categories control enrolment duration, age restrictions, and circulation and fine policies for different groups of patrons.
- Item types control renewals, not for loan, and circulation and fine policies for different types of material in the library.
- Koha's circulation and fines rules configuration module is used to set loan period, maximum checkout, and fine rules for combinations of patron categories, item types, and libraries or branches.
- You will help yourself by learning how to keep the number of rules to a small number using "Default" values.
- Holds are controlled mainly ...
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