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CARLI / vufind

A library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries
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Requestability not apparent #44

Closed gibsonjc closed 8 years ago

gibsonjc commented 8 years ago

NIU- I also noticed an issue that [is] a problem in the [current] version of VuFind: you do not immediately know that an item is not requestable. For instance, many I-Share libraries will not send DVD copies of older films (pre-1970 movies) to other institutions—and many will only allow patrons to view the DVD in its home library. It is not immediately apparent when you look at the record.

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gibsonjc commented 8 years ago

Whether or not an item can be requested by a particular user is dependent on a complicated matrix of information specific to the item's owning library, item type, patron group, and patron record information. It is not possible for VuFind 3 (or VuFind 0.6 or WebVoyage) to preprocess all of this information in order to tell a user up front if an item is requestable by him/her or not.

When possible, CARLI does encourage libraries to use tricks like naming locations with additional text to advertise that items in a location are not requestable, or text in publicly displaying holdings notes.