Holidays Calendar Help

What is the Holidays Calendar?

The Holidays Calendar allows the library to define days where the library is closed. Circulation rules are then recalculated to taken in to account that library is closed and there will be no one present to return items.

There are 2 types of holiday:

1. Unique Holiday:One off events or closeures.
2. Repeatable Holidays:Holidays that either repeat the same day of every week or repeated yearly on the same date.

Updating the Calendar:

• Go to the 'Tools' module (usually under 'More' in your Global Nav)
• Choose 'Calendar'
• From the pull down you can choose which branch to apply holidays to.
  • TIP: At present you will have to enter holidays in for each branch, there is no way to apply holidays to all branches at once.
• To add a new holiday, click on the date you'd like to add a holiday to
  • Example, February 18, 2008 is President's Day and the library is closed.
• Click on the 18th of February 2008 and fill in the necessary fields for your library.
• Chose whether this holiday is repeated every day of the week or yearly.
  • In the case of President's Day it is not repeatable.
  • TIP: An example of a repeatable holiday would be Christmas, New Year's or a staff in-service day
• When you've entered the necessary data click 'Save'
• Once saved your holiday will be color-coded on the calendar

Why do I want to add holidays for my branch?

How do I enable the Holiday Calendar?

You can make use of the Holidays Calendar by turning on the proper system preferences

• Get there: More > Administration > Global System Preferences > Circulation > useDaysMode
  • Choose the method for calculating due date: select Calendar to use the holidays module, and Days to ignore the holidays module
• Get there: More > Administration > Global System Preferences > Circulation > finescalendar
  • This will use the check the holiday calendar before charging fines