Hello all,
Sorry for the delay; I am on week three of a nagging virus that is really taking its toll on my ability to think!
Anyway, here is what I was thinking:
In voyager, loan rules are based on a complex intersection of a few key factors, patron, item type, and location (among other things). Voyager requires us to enter values for EVERY circumstance:
Graduate student, book, olin (location)
grad student, visual, olin
grad student, serial, olin
grad student, book, uris
grad student, visual, uris
grad student, serial, uris
faculty, book, olin
faculty, visual, olin
and so on...
Given above, there is no priority decision because every loan case is spelled out. This means there is no confusion about what priority "wins" when there is two issues (graduate students gets 6 months on all except serials when they only get those items for 6 weeks).
However, this can be tedious anytime you want to make changes to your loan rules because every permutation must be updated with the new parameter.
I was HOPING that a new system could be built so that we (the operators of the system) didn't have to set the prioritization (i.e. setting up each patron, item, location combination).
What I envision was something like:
graduate students get all materials for 6 months for all locations EXCEPT law (where they only get materials for 6 weeks) and except for serials (where they only get those for 3 weeks).
Does this help clarify what I was thinking?
Wendy