Holds: Give precedence to local holds

Set this option to "YES" to give priority to local holds (holds for which the pickup location is among the owning library's Locations Served entries).

When the Holds: Give precedence to local holds circulation option is enabled, the system fills item holds placed by your library's patrons on your library's books before filling holds placed by patrons of another library.

How Giving Priority to Local Holds Functions

When the Holds: Give precedence to local holds circulation option is enabled, the system functions as follows:

• The system fills item holds placed by your library's patrons on your library's books before filling holds placed by patrons of another library.
• When an item whose title or volume has multiple holds is checked in, the system first determines whether the item satisfies any local holds. If so, the system fills the first local hold in the queue.
• If there are multiple local holds and/or there are holds in more than one hold queue, the system checks for the first local hold in each queue and then fills the local hold that is earliest.
• Because local holds take priority, and therefore hold queue positions might not be accurate, the system suppresses the display of hold queue positions in the STATUS column when:
• patrons use WebPAC to view their requests and holds.
• staff use Sierra to view the Hold tab in a patron record.