Circulation is arguably the most important function in a library. In this chapter, we learned:
How to map a library's policies to Koha's rules and system preferences.
Patron categories control enrolment duration, age restrictions, and circulation and fine policies for different groups of patrons.
Item types control renewals, not for loan, and circulation and fine policies for different types of material in the library.
Koha's circulation and fines rules configuration module is used to set loan period, maximum checkout, and fine rules for combinations of patron categories, item types, and libraries or branches.
You will help yourself by learning how to keep the number of rules to a small number using "Default" values.
Holds are controlled mainly via system preferences. The preferences control among other things maximum reserves per patron, maximum duration before a reserve is cancelled, and the maximum delay in picking up an item on hold.
In the next chapter, our last on application configuration...