Resource Sharing Loan Due Date
It would be ideal if a Loan Due Date could be a standardized length. Currently Loan Due Date= Due Date minus transit time and holdshelf. Often this results in an inconsistent length of time. This is most evident when loan periods are short. For example, if an item has a 14 day loan policy according to the Loan TOU, and the Lending Resource Sharing TOU Due Date is set at 21 days, the loan period could be 17 days.
We would prefer that Loan Due Dates follow the pattern:
If Loan TOU is shorter than {Due Date - Transit and Holdshelf time}, loan length should= Loan TOU. Otherwise, follow existing rule for Loan Due Date.
Aimee
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Diana
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Hi Moshe,
We tested using the ignore_lender_due_date parameter but this won't work for us. The main issue we noticed that with the parameter turned on was that the maximum renewal date was ignored and there was no notification to the lender. Ignoring the lender due date would also require borrowing libraries to create separate Loan Rules for partners with differing TOU and additional communication with partners. Ideally, the lender’s TOU would be applied. -
Note that you can set the system to totally ignore the lender due date, and use your own TOU by using the ignore_lender_due_date parameter. A more sophisticated setup would also use the Item Creation Rules (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/080Configuring_Fulfillment/060Resource_Sharing/020Advanced_Resource_Sharing_Configurations#Configuring_Temporary_Item_Creation_Rules ) to create the temporary items in different locations depending on whether the lender has assigned a long due date or a short one, and then use your loan TOUs to set due dates.
For example - Item creation rules create items with lender due date that is more than 60 days in a 'long loans' location, and items with a due date shorter than that at a 'short loans' location. Then, TOUs assign 30 days loan to the 'short loans' items and 60 days to the 'long loans' . This way, a consistent due date is set to all loans.
