Changing a "new" item status automatically

If your library would like to have new items circulate for a different amount of time than other items there are tools available to you in Koha to make this pretty easy to do.

You need to set up an itemstatus in your system for the new materials with the circulation rules you want applied (a one week loan period for example, or no renewals) and when you add a new item to your collection that you want to have handled this way you will use this itemstatus.

Then you will want to set up those items to be automatically modified a specific number of days after they are added to the system (say 180 days which is about 6 months). The Monday Minutes video below shows you how to set this up.  

Note that you will need to have a chron-job set up to make this magic happen after everything is configured.  nhaisLOCAL libraries should contact the NHAIS Help Desk to have the chronjob started.