| School Name | Circulation Rules File (upload as a text file or link as a google doc) | Briefly describe your approach to your rules, why you chose to write the ruleset the way you did | When did you / will you go into production? | Contact for questions |
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| Duke University | | - This is a first pass at rules to enable some basic loan import - we expect to have many more rules before we go live
- We have a central library system and professional school libraries that all share an ILS, but the professional school libraries have different rules, so the main organizing principle is location
- Beyond location, we're still trying to decide if we will group by material type or patron group
- we do expect to use loan type to enforce special circulation scenarios (like library use only)
| Summer 2022 | |
| Saint Michael's College | | - We chose to organize our rules primarily around locations and patron groups
- We use loan types to handle our Reserves
| Summer 2021 | Stacey Knight |
| Skidmore College | | - Most of our rules are based on material type and patron group
- We also have some circulation rules based on loan type, used for items such as course reserves
- As we only have a single library on a single campus we do not use campuses, institutions, or libraries in our circulation rules
- We also do not base our circulation rules on location.
- We use location to indicate whether something is part of a collection in addition to it's physical location. So our library has many locations (nearly 200) despite only occupying one building. Thus using location circulation rules would be very inefficient and result in more rules than necessary
- There is one rule at the top to prevent materials from circulating to certain patron groups (student workers and "API" - used for generating API tokens)
| Summer 2021 | Michael Paulmeno |
| Texas A&M University | | - Large multi-library system, using location, loan type, and patron type
- Some locations charge fines, some do not
- Complex rules around media and equipment circulation that differs (somewhat) by location
| August 2021 | Elizabeth Chenette |
| Missouri State University | MO_State_Circ_Rules_07_28_21.txt | - Our initial approach was to use loan types to replace our location-based rules from our previous system. From there we apply policies, predominantly, based on patron group.
- Initially, we had a very simple rule-set, but we had to create additional patron groups for non-circulation reasons and account for those in our rules, which makes our definitions longer than we'd like
- We had to expand our patron groups, again, to account for the need to limit the ability of some "local" patrons to page items from their home libraries. This also increased the size of our various group rule definitions and required us to increase the total number of rules, overall.
| June 2020 | |
| Lehigh University | | - We simplified our rules in 2015 when we migrated to OLE.
- These rules follow the tiered approach we were using in OLE.
- Working well so far
| August 2020 | Mark Canney |
| Cornell University | | - Prior to migration Material types, Loan policies, and Loan types were identified for removal. Fines were simplified prior to migration to Folio.
- The primary reasoning behind the style we used for our ruleset was readability by other staff members and new staff members down the road, including:
- The `first-line` method was applied.
- Policies were written utilizing the nested feature.
- Nested rules were written to correspond with the order defined in the `criterium`. (Top levels are restrictive with the final layer (Material Type) having the active policies applied.
- A large number of comments were included.
- Extra rules were added to the top to ensure that items in special collections were blocked as well as setting a default reserves policy for items with an effective reserves location.
- NOTE: As of 7-28-2021, there are a few policies that were added to accommodate discrepancies in imported data from the patterns established for FOLIO.
| July 2021 | |
| BNCF Library | BNCF_circulation rules_2021.docx | - Most of the BNCF rules are based on loan type, patron group and material type
- There are three loan types:
- Prestito = the book can circulate and exit from the library - Consultazione = the book can’t exit from the library, it’s only for in house use - No Prestito = books can’t circulate· - There are different patron groups setting in FOLIO, that are differentiated according to what kind of material to which they can have access and to the loan type (they can bring the item out of the library , they can read the item only in the library or both)
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| Annalisa Di Sabato |