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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:00:36 PDT
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- From: "Kathleen Matthews" <LSYS1@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Billings & recalls
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 13 Jul 1992 10:48:24 CDT from <BAUGHMAN@UTDALLAS>
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- At the University of Victoria we also have bills generated 40 days after an
- item is overdue. However if a recall or rush recall is placed on an item then
- a bill is produced 7 days after the recall due date. It is important to
- us to be able to apply a different billing interval for overdue recalled
- items because we want to charge that item to lost as soon as possible in the
- hopes of getting the item returned within a useable time period for the
- recalling patron. This is the way it worked for us in 4.6.1 and the way we
- expected it to work for us in 5.0.2..but........................
-
- We have just reported a whopper of a bug to NOTIS as regards replacement
- bills for overdue recalled items........The scenario is as follows:
- Item charged on term loan. Item recalled before the end of term with a 7day
- due date assigned. Recalled item is not returned and 7 days after the recall
- due date and a pseudobill is printed. Item is charged to LOST. In 4.6.1 a
- replacement bill would have been printed for $65.00 ($10.00 - service fee,
- $35.00 - replacement fee, $20.00 - overdue fine (Canadian dollars so we charge
- lots). In 5.0.2 we received no replacement bill and the patron, received a
- $260.00 credit (yes -$260.00 on the PBILL and Patron record.) Seems the
- system calculated the overdue fine based on the original due date at term end
- (end of August) rather than the recall due date(mid june) and did its overdue
- calculations using a negative number of days overdue. Fun. NOTIS has
- reproduced this same result....PPQ7372. We would like a fix soon so please
- add your site to this problem number if you also have this problem.
-
- Another 5.0.2 bug (PPQ5555) that is interferring with our fine revenues is as
- follows: No fines are being calculated by the system when an overdue recalled
- term loan item is discharged and there are no other recalls in the queue.
-
- PPQ5594 is yet another fine problem that occurs when there are multiple
- recalls in the queue that results in too many fines being assessed. It is
- tedious to describe the exact situation but if you are interested please
- contact me.
-
- NOTIS has replicated all of these and we are awaiting CSRC decisions. As
- you can imagine our fine policy has become impossible to implement under
- 5.0.2 (Term loan subject to recall with heavy fines for overdue
- recalls policy). So if any of you can add your name to these PPQ numbers
- it may encourage CSRC to attach a higher priority. Thank you.
- In this case there is a second recall in the queue at the time the first
- recall is charged which means that athe orig
- are being applied to an item that is overdue according to the recall due date
- but not overdue according to the term loan (original) due date
-
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- KATHLEEN WEBSTER MATTHEWS (LSYS1@UVVM.UVIC.CA)
- Systems Librarian, McPherson Library
- UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, VICTORIA, B.C., CANADA.
- (604) 721-8219
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