Autorenewal uses an automated process to identify and renew items that are eligible for renewal on or just before their due date, and to notify patrons about items that were renewed and ones that were due but not eligible for renewal.
Libraries choose whether or not they choose to use autorenewal.
How Renewal Works
In order to understand how autorenewal works, it helps to understand how loan rules and renewal work in general.
Every library has a set of rules that govern how their own items circulate when checked out at their library. These cover things like loan periods, fine rates, number of renewals allowed, etc., for different parts of their collection and (sometimes) for different types of patrons.
We use a separate set of loan rules for network transfers — your items checked out at another library and other libraries’ items checked out of your library. The network transfer loan rules may differ from your local loan rules, but it’s the same rules for all network transfers.
Renewal is always conditional — patrons may renew items that have no holds and that have not already been renewed the maximum number of times.
How Autorenewal Works
If your library uses autorenewal, there’s a process that runs daily looking at your library’s items that were checked out at your library that have reached their due date, and renews items that are eligible. It’s following the same rules that are in effect for staff renewing items in the staff client, or patrons renewing item logged into the catalog — items will only be renewed if there are no holds and have remaining renewals.
The system will send an email notice to patrons telling them what actions have been taken — which items were renewed and which were not. No printed notices are issued for autorenewal.
There will be no change for network transfers — your items sent to other libraries and other library’s items sent to yours.