[Publib] Question about DVD Holds

[Paula Alston]

Lise, I don’t know that I would sweat the small stuff.  They are basically
following your rules.  5 checkouts at a time and 5 holds at a time.  And if
they want to make another trip to the library a day later, let them!  This
is a battle I wouldn’t fight or worry about.

 

Paula K. Alston, Director

Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library

Christiansburg, VA  24073

540-382-6965 x16

www.mfrl.org

From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Lise Chlebanowski
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:16 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Publib] Question about DVD Holds

 

Good morning,

 

We allow patrons to have 5 items on hold at any given time. We also allow a
maximum of 5 DVD checkouts per card with no renewals allowed. Recently we
have had patrons try to circumvent these limits in a couple of different
ways. 

 

*	Patron will check out 5 movies and put 5 additional movies on hold,
watch the 5 at home and come back right before the "unheld" date to return
the 5 they have and pick up the new 5 basically putting 10 DVDs out of
commission for one week. 
*	Patron will return a movie and then immediately put a hold on it so
they can have it back right away which isn't much different from renewing it
- just more work for the patron. 

Has anyone had this problem and found a clever solution? 

 

If we had a huge collection of DVDs it wouldn't matter much, but we don't
have a lot for our patrons and would like to have them available for
everyone. Any suggestions are appreciated. 

 

Lisë Chlebanowski

Library Manager

Sam Garcia Western Avenue Library

495 E. Western Ave.

Avondale, AZ   85323

623-333-2611 D

623-333-0260 F

 <mailto:lchlebanowski at avondale.org> lchlebanowski at avondale.org

 

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