Monday Minutes: Placing Holds on Specific and Multiple Items

by Jessie Zairo on Jan 17, 2022

In this week's Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie talk about placing holds on specific and multiple items in the collection.

Holds Management

Depending on your circulation and fines rules and hold preference settings patrons will be able to place items on hold for pickup at the library at a later date/time.

Circulation Rules

You will want to check your circulation rules to make sure you have your holds set correctly.

Navigate to Administration —> Circulation and Fine Rules.

If patrons can place holds on items of this type, you will enter the total numbers of items that can be put on hold in the ‘Holds allowed’ field. Remember this is driven by the patron category and item type.

You can also set a daily limit on the number of holds a patron can place.

The next setting is used to limit the number of holds that can be placed on one record at the same time.

Next you can decide how the availability of items impacts the ability to place a hold.

Under ‘OPAC item level hold’ you can decide if patrons are allowed to place item specific holds on the item type in question.

For additional information reference the manual at Circulation Rules.

Additional Resources

Monday Minutes: Placing Multiple Holds in the OPAC

How Koha handles multiple holds per record