How does Item Status affect online requesting and lending?
The answer is different within Minerva and across MaineCat. Across MaineCat an item cannot be requested unless it has a Status of “-” Available and is not currently checked out. Of course, loan rule requirements must also be met. Since MaineCat requests are placed ONLY at the item level, the hold will not Within Minerva, item status alone does NOT prevent requesting. Therefore, holds placed through the circulation module can be mistakenly and sucessfully placed on unavailable items, even though they will never be filled. For this reason, libraries are strongly encouraged to only use the OPAC when placing holds. Through the opac, we ARE able to block requesting by material type. An online request made through the OPAC starts out as a bib level hold. If there is an attached item that meets loan rule requirements and has a Status of Available, the bib level hold is immediately converted to an item level hold and a Paging Slip is queued for printing at the lending library. If there are no
