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I need your opinion for a work-related matter. In my library's online catalog, every item has a status. If it's not checked out, the status is

Posted by mara Jun 25 '09, 08:01

"check shelf" (because that's where it's supposed to be. If it's checked out, the status is "Due 7-3-2009." If it's recently been returned after being checked out, the status is "Just returned."

For some reason, the "Just returned" status automatically goes away after 24 hours. But our shelvers never get it reshelved in 24 hours. Two days later, the status is "Check shelf," but never actually there.

So my question is this. What is a reasonable amount of time to expect an item to be reshelved by? Two days? 3? 4? 5? 10?

(This is not even related to whether or not the "just returned" status can be extended to more than 24 hours, but assume that it can't.)

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if they can show the due date, then why can't they show a returned on date? -- nm - zork Jun 25, 08:19 2
- Good question! -- nm - mara Jun 25, 08:24 1
  - assuming they can, showing that for even 7 days is not unreasonable -- nm - zork Jun 25, 08:25
Certainly not more than three. That implies a good chance of consecutive fruitless trips to pick up a book. -- nm - Jelly Jun 25, 08:05
2 days. -- nm - Diva Jun 25, 08:04
as a library customer, i would expect 2 days to be reasonable. - Andie Jun 25, 08:02
2 days I would think. -- nm - Remlik Jun 25, 08:02
I would say 48hours. -- nm - tRuMaN Jun 25, 08:02

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