[IMUG-L] displaying loan periods

[Harden, Jean]

Has anybody with an Innovative catalog come up with a good way to display loan periods? We are looking for something that would work in our fairly complex system, with lots of subunits with their own policies.

We'd like to find a way that doesn't require creating a custom status (because those are too easily cleared by circulation workers) or anything that would make us have to update numerous separate places when a policy changed. The main thing that needs to display, if we can figure out how to do it, is the short loans (2-hour loan, in-house use; or 2-hour loan of books on course carrels but 3-day loans for books on personal carrels; and things like that). We don't want to display the loans for normal circulating materials, because those vary by patron type (for instance, if an undergraduate checks it out, it is 3 weeks; but if faculty or grads check the same thing out, it is a full semester)

Thanks for any hints.

Jean 

Jean Harden
Coordinator of Music Technical Services
University of North Texas
Denton, TX  76201
jean.harden at unt.edu