CIRCULATION ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 7. SETTING CIRCULATION PARAMETERS
Adding and Modifying Checkout Fees
You can add or modify checkout fees for any currently established library, branch or collection for your VERSO system.
To set or modify checkout fees:
- From the Circ Admin menu, select Circulation Parameters - Checkout Fees.
- The Modify Checkout Fees - Select Location screen displays.
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The Select Location screen shows an indentured listing of all currently
defined libraries, branches and collections for your VERSO system. Locations for
which one or more specific parameters have been specified are preceded by the
notation “-- ACTIVE ->.”
- Parameters set at the library level serve as the default parameters for all branches and collections associated with that library. If specific parameters are not set for a given branch/collection or material type, VERSO uses the parameters set at the library level. Similarly, parameters set at the branch level serve as the default parameters for all collections associated with that branch. If specific parameters are not set for a given collection or material type, VERSO uses the parameters set at the branch level.
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From the Select Location screen, click the name of the library, branch or
collection for which you wish to set (or modify) checkout fees.
- The Modify Checkout Fees screen for the selected location displays in an additional browser window.
- The Modify Checkout Fees screen is arranged as a table, with all patron categories established for your library listed across the top row of the table, and all material types established for your library listed down the left column of the table.
- The Modify Checkout Fees screen shows the currently established checkout fees for each patron category/material type combination.
- If desired, you can reconfigure, sort and filter table content (see the System Basics User Guide for details).
- Enter the checkout fee (in dollars and cents) to be levied each time an
item of the associated material type is checked out, for each material type, in
its associated text box.
If a checkout fee is less than one dollar, it is not necessary to enter the leading zero.
- To apply the same checkout fee to all patron categories, enter the desired checkout fee in the All text boxes. To apply unique checkout fees for one or more patron categories, enter the checkout fees in the appropriate patron category text boxes.
- If you do not wish to assign a checkout fee for a given material type, leave the associated text box blank.
- When all desired checkout fees have been entered, click the Submit button
to submit your changes.
- The Modify Checkout Fees screen refreshes to show your changes.
- When checkout fees for all desired patron category/material type combinations have been set, click the Close button on the Modify Checkout Fees screen to close the screen and return to the Select Location screen.
- Repeat steps 2 through 5 to add (or modify) checkout fees for
additional
locations.
It is recommended that you make a printout of the checkout fees for each location for future reference (see Printing Circulation Parameters for details).