Non-Circulating Items

You can designate certain items as non-circulating in two ways:

• To make a specific item non-circulating for all patrons, select the Non-circulating checkbox in the header of the Item Record workform. An advantage of this method is that patrons can see that an item is non-circulating in their PAC search results. You can set a special PAC description for these items.

• To make specific items non-circulating for certain patron codes only, create a non-circulating loan period code in the Polaris Administration (staff client) using the Loan Period Codes policy table. Then assign the loan period code to the appropriate patron codes, and specify a Units value of 0 for each restricted patron code.

When a patron attempts to check out a non-circulating item, a block appears. If the circulation staff member overrides the block, and the item itself is non-circulating, Polaris assigns a loan period according to the loan period code in the item record. If the circulation staff member overrides the block, and the item is non-circulating for specified patron codes, Polaris assigns a loan period of one time unit as defined in the Loan Period Codes policy table.