Chapter 32. Long Overdue Items

Items Marked Long Overdue

Once an item has been overdue for a configurable amount of time, Evergreen will mark the item long overdue in the borrowing patron’s account. This will be done automatically through a Notification/Action Trigger. When the item is marked long overdue, several actions will take place:

  1. The item will go into the status of “Long Overdue”
  2. The accrual of overdue fines will be stopped

Optionally the patron can be billed for the item price, a long overdue processing fee, and any overdue fines can be voided from the account. Patrons can also be sent a notification that the item was marked long overdue. And long-overdue items can be included on the "Items Checked Out" or "Other/Special Circulations" tabs of the "Items Out" view of a patron’s record. These are all controlled by library settings.

Patron Account-Long Overdue

Checking in a Long Overdue item

If an item that has been marked long overdue is checked in, an alert will appear on the screen informing the staff member that the item was long overdue. Once checked in, the item will go into the status of “In process”. Optionally, the item price and long overdue processing fee can be voided and overdue fines can be reinstated on the patron’s account. If the item is checked in at a library other than its home library, a library setting controls whether the item can immediately fill a hold or circulate, or if it needs to be sent to its home library for processing.

Long Overdue Checkin

Notification/Action Triggers

Evergreen has two sample Notification/Action Triggers that are related to marking items long overdue. The sample triggers are configured for 6 months. These triggers can be configured for any amount of time according to library policy and will need to be activated for use.

Library Settings

The following Library Settings enable you to set preferences related to long overdue items:

Tip

Learn more about these settings in the chapter about the Library Settings Editor.

Permissions to use this Feature

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