New Prospector Loan Rules

 

 

 

The Prospector system (http://prospector.coalliance.org) currently has a very straightforward and simple loan policy. All patron types and all items are lendable for 3 weeks with one renewal possible and a $100 lost volume fee.  Two new loan rules are being added in August 2001: a media loan rule and a PASCAL journal loan rule.   A media loan rule will offer a one-week checkout period with no renewals and will support libraries that may want to lend materials such as videos, CDs, DVDs and other specialty items but were unwilling to do so under the longer loan period.  The lost item fee for media will remain the standard $100 cost.  A PASCAL journal loan rule will offer a one-week checkout period with no renewals but a $400 lost volume fee.  PASCAL is the new remote storage facility being shared by CU/Boulder, University of Denver, Auraria and CU/Health Sciences.  For the first time, patrons will be able to borrow bound serials that have been placed in the PASCAL facility.  Monographs that are placed in PASCAL will be available with the standard Prospector loan rule.

 

Libraries will need to add a new loan rule into their local library systems before the new policies can be activated.  The central Prospector system has been updated to support the new policies.   For more information, contact George Machovec (gmachove@coalliance.org) at the Alliance or Jim Farmer (jfarmer@manta.colostate.edu) at CSU who is chair of the Prospector Document Delivery Committee.

 

The following instructions and tables are specifically designed for Prospector libraries running a local Innopac from Innovative Interfaces, Inc.  Please contact the Alliance office for further information on libraries running the CARL System or the Voyager (Endeavor) system.

 

 

Steps to adding Media and PASCAL journal circulation periods (III libraries) for Prospector

 

 

NOTE:  See the sample tables for how to set-up parameters in more detail..

 

Adding our two new 7-day parameters:

1.       Prospector DD Committee must determine the number of the PROSPECTOR ITEM TYPE for media circulation as well as the PASCAL ITEM TYPE number at the Central level.  [NOTE: THIS IS DONE: Chosen:  205 for Media and 206 for PASCAL Journals.]

2.        Add ITYPE 205 and 206 to Central. [NOTE: THIS IS DONE]

3.        Add ITYPE 205 and 206 to your local systems. 

4.        Provide George (gmachove@coalliance.org) with a revised profile sheet for your institution after mapping your local ITYPES that will circulate on the new 205 and 206 Central ITYPES (if applicable).

5.        Add a Central Rule Selection Entry for media and PASCAL. [NOTE: THIS IS DONE]

6.        Add a Local Loan Rule for media and PASCAL circulation setting the loan time at 7 days with no renewals.  PASCAL loan rule will differ in price fields for replacement cost ($400 vs. $100 for media).

7.        Add a Local Rule Selection Entry for Media and PASCAL.

8.        Establish a testing plan if necessary.

9.        Establish an implementation date.

 

Note if you use the Visiting Patron Option, you may have additional adjustments to make.  Check with George or Jim for how to proceed.  We may need to study up on this again!

 

August 20, 2001 comments from Jim Farmer on new loan rules.

 

For everyone setting up for Pascal and Media on III:

 

If you are a library that is a part of PASCAL or are using the new media option, your set-up will be more complicated because you will not only have to set up to send Pascal or media as well as receive Pascal or media

 

For example, at CSU, I only needed to add 2 local loan rules for 205 and 206 (different due to billing prices). Then, in the rule selection table, I added 2 new lines corresponding to each of these for checkout at our Circ Desk. This is because CSU is only receiving. All of our media will be loaned via the 3-week loan period so we didn't have to add any institution-to-institution loan rules. Should we in the future use either of these for loaning, those will have to be put in.

 

So, for lending and receiving sites, you need to do the above in order to circulate to patrons at your desk. PLUS...In order to circulate to other institutions, you will need more institution loan rules and rule selections.

 

I'm hoping this makes sense. The other glitch could result if mapping to the new ITYPES 205 and 206 is incorrect. Be sure George has the right ITYPES from your local institutions to map correctly to these. Then, also be sure your items have the proper ITYPE in order to Circulate.

 

 

SAMPLE LOAN RULE TABLES FOR LOCAL INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS

 

central #1

central #2

central #3

central #4

1st local (point of checkout at circ. desk)--#varies in your tables

2nd local (point of checkout at circ. desk)--#varies in your tables

3rd local (point of checkout at circ. desk)--#varies in your tables

NOTES

INSTITUTION TO INSTITUTION CHECKOUT FOR REGULAR LOANS

NON-CIRC, SPECIFIC FOR PROSPECTOR

INSTITUTION TO INSTITUTION CHECKOUT FOR MEDIA

INSTITUTION TO INSTITUTION PASCAL JOURNAL CHECKOUTS

REGULAR LOANS TO PATRONS

MEDIA LOANS TO PATRON

PASCAL JOURNAL LOANS TO PATRON

 

R

N

R

R

R

R

R

 

55

0

17

17

21

7

7

 

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

 

N

N

N

N

N

N

N

 

7

N

0

0

14

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

21

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

 

55

0

17

17

21

7

7

Central 1 is 55: 42 days plus 13 for transit time, Central 2 and 3 are 17; 10 days for transit.

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

1

1

1

1

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

NOTE:  PROSPECTOR CONSIDERS A BOOK TO BE BILLED AFTER 55 DAYS--PLEASE ADJUST ACCORDINGLY

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$75.00

$75.00

$400.00

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

NOTE:  USE OF PROCESS FEE VS. SER. CHARGE FIELDS MAY BE LOCAL DEF. DUE TO HOW YOU HANDLE FINANCIALS (E.G. BURSAR OUTPUT AND A/R ACCOUNTS MAY BE TIED TO THESE FIELDS)

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$25.00

$25.00

$0.00

NOTE:  USE OF PROCESS FEE VS. SER. CHARGE FIELDS MAY BE LOCAL DEF. DUE TO HOW YOU HANDLE FINANCIALS (E.G. BURSAR OUTPUT AND A/R ACCOUNTS MAY BE TIED TO THESE FIELDS)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

LOCAL DEF.

 

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAMPLE RULE SELECTION TABLE ON THE CENTRAL (PROSPECTOR) AND LOCAL SYSTEMS

 

CENTRAL

(table is read from bottom to top)

 

 

 

ENTRY #

LOCATION

PATRON TYPE

ITEM TYPE

RULE NUMBER

NOTES

 

 

1

?????

999

999

2

catch-all; makes non-circ for libraries/patrons/items which fall through the table

 

 

2

9*

201-209

206

4

allows central pass-through for eventual 7-day PASCAL journals for valid ptypes, no renewal

 

 

2

9*

201-209

205

3

allows central pass-through for eventual 7 day circulation MEDIA for valid ptypes, no renewal

 

 

3

9*

201-209

200

1

allows central pass-through for eventual 21 day circulation for valid ptypes, 1 renewal

 

 

4

9*

210

?????

2

prevents testing on itypes other than 200; this line must be paired with line 4

 

 

5

9*

210

200

1

allows circ. testing for test ptype 210 and test itype 200

 

 

6

9*

200

?????

2

prevents circ. for ptype 200

 

 

7

9*

211

?????

2

prevents circ. for test ptype 211

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOCAL

(your table is also read from bottom to top but info below will vary on placement in your system--see notes for recommendations.)

ENTRY #

LOCATION

PATRON TYPE

ITEM TYPE

RULE NUMBER

NOTES

 

 

varies--place this entry at bottom of your local table

9*

varies--put ranges of your ptypes who can borrow from Prospector + remember to include 210

206

varies--this is your rule number for the Prospector PASCAL journal checkout for point-of-chkout to patron

NEW FOR 2001:  PASCAL JOURNAL CIRCULATION FOR 7 DAYS

 

 

varies--place this entry at bottom of your local table

9*

varies--put ranges of your ptypes who can borrow from Prospector + remember to include 210

205

varies--this is your rule number for the Prospector media 7 day checkout for point-of-chkout to patron

NEW FOR 2001:  MEDIA CIRCULATION FOR 7 DAYS.

 

 

varies--place this entry at bottom of your local table

9*

varies--put ranges of your ptypes who can borrow from Prospector + remember to include 210

200

varies--this is your rule number for the Prospector regular 21 day checkout for point-of-chkout to patron