Wishlist: make loan rules clear to staff and patrons

[Benjamin Kalish]

When patrons view an item in the OPAC they have no way of knowing what the loan rules are (loan duration, number of renewals, etc.) And too often when staff view a record in the staff client they also cannot figure out what the rules are.

A human readable description of the circulation rules on an item by item basis should be available in the OPAC (perhaps as a mouseover or link in the list of holdings) and from the Record Summary/Item Detail View page. In the OPAC we can use information about the logged in user. In the staff client we don't have this information and so the rules would need to appear as a list or matrix to take into account different patron types or other variables that could affect loan durations.

Both the OPAC and staff displays of this information should be shown or hidden according to a setting, so that libraries can hide this information if they desire.