The lost status in the OPAC detail page always displays as 'lost' and doesn't seem to ever display the description from the authorized value. I can imagine libraries not wanting to see the internal status of a lost item - but as we can differentiate between OPAC and staff description, I think it would be good to leaave to the library to decide. In order to not suddenly display unwanted informtion, maybe we could set the OPAC description for the lost values to 'lost' in a database update?
Argh. It already displays the OPAC description - it turns out, if you leave the OPAC description empty, it will always show 'lost', but once you put something in there, the description is displayed perfectly fine. Sorry! :)