Item types

Item Types are used to control the circulation of material.  There needs to be a circulation rule for each library for each Item Type in order to circulate an item with that Item Type.  Most of the libraries have a circulation rule for most of the Item Types.  Two exceptions are E-READER and GAMES.  If libraries add these types of material, they should contact Karla Smith smith@winnefox.org to have a circulation rule created.

Item Type

  Description
AV Audio-visual
AV-EQUIP Audio-visual equipment
BOOK Book
BOOK-LH Book-Local Hold only
BOOK-NH Book-No Holds
CASSETTE Cassette
CASS-LH Long Loan Local Hold
CD CD
CD-BOOK CD-Book
CD-BOOK-LH CD-Book-Local Hold
CD-LH CD-Local Hold
CDROM CD-ROM
CD-ROM CD-ROM
CD-ROM-LH CD-ROM-Local Hold
CITY Marketable items -- proceeds to city
COMMINFO Community Info Database Record
DIGITAL Digital
DIGITAL-LH Digital-Local Hold
DVD DVD
DVD-LH DVD-Local Hold only
DVD-NH DVD-No Hold
E-MATERIAL Electronic Materials
E-READER E-Reader Device (Nook, Kindle, etc.)
FRIENDS Marketable items--proceeds go to Friends
ILL-BOOK Interlibrary Loan Item
JBOOK Children's Book
JBOOK-LH Children's Book-Local Hold Only
JBOOK-NH Children's Book-No Hold
JCASSETTE Children's Cassette
JCASS-LH UNUSED
JCD Children's CD
JCD-BOOK Children's CD-Book
JCD-BOOKLH Children's CD-Book-Local Hold
JCD-LH Children's CD-Local Hold
JCD-ROM Children's CD-ROM
JCD-ROM-LH Children's CD-ROM-Local Hold
JDIGITAL Children's Digital
JDIGITALLH Children's Digital-LH
JDVD Children's DVD
JDVD-LH Children's DVD-Local Hold Only
JDVD-NH Children's DVD-No Hold
JKIT Children's Kit
JMAGAZINE Children's Magazine
JSPECIAL Children's Puppet/Puzzle/Game
JVIDEO Children's Video
JVIDEO-LH Children's Video-Local Hold
KIT Kit
LIBRARY Marketable Items--proceeds to Library
LONG-NH Long Loan Period - No holds
MAGAZINE Magazine
MAG-LH Magazine-Local Hold
MICROFORM Microform
NEW-BOOK New books
NEWSPAPER Newspaper
ON-ORDER On Order
ON-ORDERLH On Order--Local Hold
OTHER-N Officially Non-Circulating OTHER items
PAMPHLET Pamphlet
REF-BOOK Reference Item
UI-LOST Unreturned Item
UNKNOWN Unknown-Don't Use
VIDEO Video
VIDEO-LH Video-Local Hold