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1.4. Hold Boundaries

Hold Boundaries

• Hard
  • Patrons cannot place holds across
  • Staff cannot place holds across
  • They are inflexible, impermeable… hard.
  • The system will never look beyond a hard boundary, even if there are no copies in the soft boundary area.
• Soft
  • We begin looking for a potential copy at the pickup library – ranged up to the soft boundary
  • If no copy is found, it will walk up the org tree (and look down) until it hits a hard boundary
  • Once a potential copy is identified it will never look further – that becomes the hard boundary for that hold
  • Holds obey standard targeting/opportunistic behaviors otherwise

 

 

 

 

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