23. Як розмістити резервування

From the Lime Green Intranet screen, select the Green Member Search option by clicking on it.

Use the text box OR the letters to pull up the borrower who would like to make a request.

Once you’ve arrived at that borrower, thier name will be in big bold text at the top of the page.

Scroll down the page using the scroll bar at the right of your browser.

Near the bottom on the left, there is a box that reads Modify User Flags. Select it by clicking on it.

A new screen will appear with all sorts of options. If you want patrons to be able to reserve books for themselves, check the box that has Reserve books for self. Note that right now, protections are such that things are all or nothing. What this means is that someone is given administrator rights to EVERYTHING even though they should only be able to do certain things. This is very crummy indeed, and a fix is in the works. So seriously think about whether your patrons will set their own holds, or you will do it for them. Of course, if it gets fixed, then this won’t be the case any more.

You should not have to do that procedure more than once for each borrower.

Return to the Member page that has the big bold type name at the top of the screen. Scroll to the bottom. This time, select Change Password by clicking on it. This will bring up a screen with a username and password. Set the username to something the kid will remember, then set the password to something else the kid will remember. The password box will be filled with an automatically generated password. You can simply type over that, or hand it to the kid. HOWEVER, remember that UNIX is case sensitive, so if you use caps or the computer generates capitals, they have to be there.

Now, when you see the book that they want in the OPAC, you can reserve it, but you need to logon with the username and password you just created.

Well, you might not want to do things that way at all. You might want to make the patrons ask you for a reserve themselves. If you want to request things for the patron, you need to make sure that you are logged on as the admin. If not, remember how you got to the Modify User Flags screen, and modify the login to be able to make holds for other patrons. So make sure there’s a check next to Reserve for others.

Go to the lime green intranet screen, and select the first purple option Catalogue Search by clicking on it. Select Quick search. Type in the title of the book you want. There will be a link labeled Request to the right of the title. Select it by clicking on it.

You will now see a screen that reads "Requesting" and the title.

Put the patron’s number in the text box under Member Number and click Request.

Now suppose you had an audio book and a hardcover. You can request the hardcover by clicking the checkbox to the left of the item that corresponds to the hardcover and that would make Koha get only the hardcover.

І памятайте, що можна вільно прискіпуватися до мене. :)