We use the Loans module, and the loan renewed date field, with a Loans flex field group set up to record prior loan renewals, if a long-term loan. Loan begin and end dates are easily viewed and sorted via the List View, and alerts can be set up to notify Registrars when a loan is nearing the end of its loan period.
Jeffrey Smith
Assistant Registrar for Collections Information
Collections Department
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
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Sounds like a decent use case for a flex field.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 11:53 Weathers, Kaitlyn <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Hi all,
I'm looking for some insight as to how you and your institutions track loan expirations in TMS. Unfortunately, we have not made full use of the loans module, so most of our information is living in the objects module.
We currently use attributes to track expiration year with status flags that include the month of expiration. I'm hoping that we can establish a system so that we can develop a report that can be run to let us know when renewals are due. Right now what we're doing does not work for us.
Any suggestions you all have would be appreciated!
Best,
Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn Gardy Weathers
Associate Registrar for Loans and Exhibtions
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