Enable creation of individual patron blocks for loans of specific material types
If an institution needs to prohibit an individual user from borrowing a particular type of resource temporarily, e.g. placing a temporary ban on laptop loans for that person, then there is no way to block them from borrowing items of that specific material type without preventing them from borrowing everything else as well. As a result, we are unable to apply blocks in exceptional circumstances, such as with our laptop loans service, because the block would be disproportionate and prevent the user borrowing any physical items at all. The only workaround would be to have a ‘Blocked’ user group configured not to be able to borrow that specific material type, to which users being blocked could be assigned temporarily. However, that is not a workable solution for us because each of our User Groups has different entitlements to length of loan period, maximum number of items, and so on. We would like the ‘Blocks’ tab in a patron record to enable individual material types to be selected when creating a block for that user, determining the scope of that block.
Tom Kistell
shared this idea
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Susan Lorimer
commented
This is something that we were looking to have as well, specifically for late return of laptops. We'd hoped that it would be possible through using demerits, but again it does not allow for a granular blocking of a specific material type when borrowing. As the configuration allows the selection of material type when creating the demerit points it would be useful if the material type could also be applied to the item that is to be loaned, therefore not preventing all items from being loaned, but allowing the specifying of type, e.g. laptop.
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cecilia hui
commented
Thats a useful feature. Thanks for the suggestion.