Manage circulation policies for Follett eBooks

You can access all the administrative capabilities for Follett eBooks at Catalog > Search Setup > Digital > Digital Setup.

By default, District Setup provides you with one Circulation Type, General eBook, but you can create more. After you create a new Circulation Type, you must assign it to the eBooks to which it applies.

To set up circulation policies

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To assign a Circulation Type to an eBook

Important: You can change but not delete the circulation type default.

If you try to delete a title with a circulation type assigned to it, you are prompted to reassign the title to another circulation type.

Select Catalog > Search Setup >Digital tab and click Digital Setup.

Select Policies > Circulation Types.

Use the following table to complete your task:

Note: If you have a Shared Account and do not want shared account users to access the circulation type, deselect the Allow Access to this Circulation Type checkbox.

To set a circulation type as the default, find the circulation type, and then select Action > Make Default.

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Add a new circulation type

Select +Add Circulation Type.
In the Default Loan Period field, type the number of days for the loan period that will be assigned to this circulation type by default.

Note: When the Default Loan Period is set to zero, it limits access to titles to any patron assigned the given circulation type.

Complete the fields as needed.
Click Save.

Edit an existing circulation type

Find the circulation type, click the Action drop-down, and then click Edit.
Make changes as needed.
Click Save.

Delete an existing circulation type

Find the circulation type, click the Action drop-down, and then click Delete.

Change a Follett eBook's circulation type

Select Maintenance > Title Maintenance.
Find the title of the eBook. Note that you can click a column name to sort the titles.
Click the Circulation Type drop-down, and then select a circulation type.
Click Save.