Making loans due at closing time?

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Article Type: General
Product: Aleph
Product Version: 20

Description:
We have a sublibrary that closes at midnight Sun - Thurs, and at 8:00 p.m. Fri and Sat. They only allow certain patron statuses to borrow these items. Before we went live with V18 a few years ago, the due time for a loan due a Fri or Sat was 8:00. Now, it's 2359. These are 3-day loans and patrons are charged a $1.00 hourly fine if the item is late. The fines are starting right at 12:01 a.m.

So, how can we make these items due at closing?

Resolution:
I see the following lines in abc50 tab16:

16L 10 ## 02 + 00000003 00 A 2359 0000 00100 003 000 2 + 00000000 A 2400 000 0
00 01 01
16L 10 ## 24 + 00000003 00 A 2359 0000 00100 003 000 2 + 00000000 A 2400 000 0
00 01 01
16L 10 ## 25 + 00000003 00 A 2359 0000 00100 003 000 2 + 00000000 A 2400 000 0
00 01 01
16L 10 ## 27 + 00000003 00 A 2359 0000 00100 003 000 2 + 00000000 A 2400 000 0
00 01 01
16L 10 ## ## + 00000000 00 + 0000 0000 00000 000 000 0 + 00000000 + 0000 000 0
00 00

Currently, column 27 is blank for all patron statuses. This means that it is defaulting to "2".

From the tab16 header, col. 27:

! 2 - Do NOT adjust due hour if the due date is an open day; if
! the due date is a closed day, find the NEXT open day. This
! is the default value in case tab16 cannot be read or this
! column has an invalid value (i.e. other than 0, 1, 2 or 3).

It *seems* that what you want is a value of "1" {Adjust a due hour which is after closing time to the closing
! time (if the due date is an open day),...}

[From site:]

It looks like there was a change to how column 27 in tab16 applied to the due dates with Version 20, that I hadn't tested until this ticket. I've tested and put into production the value "1" for column 27 and it solves most of our customer's problems. The other problems she's having stem from the "Note" in the description in the header that tells what happens when an item is due after midnight and column 27 is set for "1". She'll need to address that as a policy issue.

Article last edited: 10/8/2013