Differentiating between "Check Out" and "Renew"

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Differentiating between "Check Out" and "Renew"

1familyresourcecentre
Nov 1, 2019, 1:56 pm

After an item has been renewed, it is technically checked-out again for another borrowing period. Is there a way to be able to tell in the item's lending history when an item was actually checked out the first time, and which follow-up checkouts were renews?

I know that this can be deducted reasonably by looking at the dates, but it would be great if the renewals have some kind of differentiation from a check-out. To me a renewal is not a check-out, because the book never returned.

2kristilabrie
Nov 4, 2019, 9:53 am

Interesting point. I'm curious: what's the end-goal here for you, knowing what renewals you have versus original checkouts?

3kristilabrie
Nov 4, 2019, 11:44 am

I'm going to add this as something for developers to consider, we'll let you know if or when anything changes on this front! Thanks for your feedback.

4familyresourcecentre
Nov 15, 2019, 1:50 pm

Hi Kristi, thanks for the reply!

We allow our borrowers to renew their loans for up to 2 months of borrowing time. So when we look at Lending History, we need to identify the original Checkout from the Renews, to track the total borrowing time.

Example scenario:

Steve checks out book Jan 15 x 2 weeks.
Renews Jan 31 x 2 weeks
Renews Feb 15 x 2 weeks
Renews Feb 28 x 2 weeks
And we would know here that the Feb 28 renewal has to be the last one, because after 2 weeks he'd be at the 2 month mark (March 15).

Right now if we look at the lending history, it looks more like below

Checked out Jan 15 x 2 weeks
Checked out Jan 31 x 2 weeks
Checked out Feb 15 x 2 weeks
Checked out Feb 28 x 2 weeks

So at a glance it's hard to distinguish these as the same loan renewed 3x, which began Jan 15.

5kristilabrie
Nov 15, 2019, 2:42 pm

That makes sense, thanks!

6kristilabrie
mayo 14, 2020, 10:14 am

We have now updated Transactions tracking to note when items have been Renewed versus Checked out! I hope this helps. :)

7CtrSacredSciences
mayo 19, 2020, 11:23 am

>6 kristilabrie: This is exciting. We're not using circulation, yet, but we have a similar renewal policy and needs. Looks great.