For librarians
Holds, renewals & fines
Reserve books for members, extend loans, and handle overdue fines.
These three jobs run through the Circulation and Members tabs. None of them needs a support ticket; they’re all settings and buttons you control.
Holds
A hold reserves a book for a member. Place one from the borrower’s sidebar on the Circulation tab: type an ISBN or barcode into the hold box and press Hold.
A hold has a position in a queue. The member’s sidebar shows either:
- Ready to collect, when a copy is set aside for them, or
- #2 in queue, when others are ahead of them.
When a held book is returned, the check-in feed shows “set aside for [name],” and the next person in the queue is notified. To cancel a hold, press the ✕ next to it.
Readers can also place their own holds from the reader app, and pause or resume them. See Borrowing, holds & renewals.
Renewals
To extend a loan, press Renew next to it. You’ll find renew buttons in two places:
- The borrower’s On loan now list on the Circulation tab.
- A member’s On loan list on their detail page under Members.
How many times a loan can be renewed is set by your Renewal limit in Lending rules. A book that someone else is waiting on can’t be renewed.
Fines
If your rules charge for overdue books, a fine is created automatically when a late book is checked in. You’ll see the amount in the check-in feed.
To handle a fine, open the member under the Members tab. Their detail page shows Unpaid fines, each with two buttons:
- Mark paid, once the member has settled it.
- Waive, to clear it without payment.
Fines are off by default. If you’d rather not charge at all, leave Fine per day at 0 in Lending rules. Fine-free is a setting, not a special request.