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Auto-renewal functionality in FOLIO

David_Dahl

4 Sep '19

Has there been any discussion, and/or is there any interest in auto-renew functionality in FOLIO? “Auto-renew” meaning that a checked out item will automatically renew to the patron to whom it is currently checked out if there are no other requests/recalls/holds on the item.

This came up at the Consortia SIG meeting today but is more relevant to Resource Access we think. Our hunch is that this is more prevalent in public libraries but may be working it’s way into academic libraries.

ttolstoy

5 Sep '19

I brought it up in the Resource access channel a couple of months back. I can see what I can dig up.

ttolstoy

5 Sep '19

Here is the start of the conversation:
https://folio-project.slack.com/archives/C3G05TF3R/p1537190273000100

enettifee

5 Sep '19

Hi David. @andrealoigman is the convenor so can maybe give more info. I don’t believe there is anything about auto-renewal currently implemented or planned. But, there is infinite renewal. You can see elements of what’s there if you look at Settings --> Circulation --> Loan Policies.

peter

5 Sep '19

View in #resource-access on Slack

@Theodor: Does anyone know if “Automatic renewals” has been discussed in the context of circulation? Automatic renewal is when the system automaticallt renews a loan according to the renewals policy if no one is queuing for or has requested that item

@cate: >Does anyone know if “Automatic renewals” has been discussed in the context of circulation? Automatic renewal is when the system automaticallt renews a loan according to the renewals policy if no one is queuing for or has requested that item

@Theodor, I haven’t heard this come up and there is no setting for it in the loan policy as it exists today. Tagging a few others as a heads up and in case they may have heard discussions on the topic: @Sean_Thomas , @ecboettcher

@Theodor: I just heard of it from somewhere and wanted to surface it.
thank you @cate

@charlotte: I think I remember, that Koha also has a possibility to set, how many times an automatically renewal can be performed - so you can’t renew the item forever

http://manual.koha-community.org/3.18/en/patscirc.html

@Carsten_Schwill: Hi @cate, we are hoping for automatic renewals (with a limited count) and have implemented endless renewals (for privileged patrons) in the meantime.

@cate et al. - Just discovered this channel and it seems timely. I don’t recall hearing a discussion on automatic renewals within the RA-SIG, but it’s something we can put on the agenda to discuss. We currently have a setting in the Loan Policy editor to cap the number of allowed renewals. Any reason that a library would want the cap on non-automatic renewals and automatic renewals to be different? The form also contains a option for Unlimited Renewals.

@cate: Hi @Sean_Thomas, it would be great if you could run with this . I think the next step is to just get a feature into UXPROD for automated renewals and get that ranked by the early implementers. Depending on the priority coming from that, we can determine if we should prioritize it for SIG discussion now or later.

@Sean_Thomas: Sure, I’ll get an issue in for this. Thanks.

andrealoigman

9 Sep '19

Hi @David_Dahl - Sorry for the slow reply. Auto-renewal hasn’t been discussed in the SIG, though there is a place-holder for working on it.
I have to say that for me this is a bit of a funny question, since I was kind of hoping to use FOLIO’s inability as an excuse to stop doing this at my institution. But I see that it’s of interest to the folks from HBZ so I suppose we’ll need to surface it.

David_Dahl

9 Sep '19

Thanks, @andrealoigman, and no worries. I’m glad to see that it has a placeholder at this point. I think that’s mainly what the Consortia SIG was looking for. At least for those represented on the SIG it sounds like it’s a desired feature versus something that they do (or even have available in their current systems) now.