It would be very useful to be able to set locations, i.e., LOC, shelving location, to Not For Loan like with itype, i.e., item types. It's typical in libraries to have shelving location like Reference, Rare, Archives, etc., where every item in them is Not For Loan, and each of these items must be manually set in the 952 $7 to "1" to make them Not For Loan. This would, e.g., add a column in "Authorized values for category LOC" to make a particular shelving location Not For Loan, or in some other wonderful way that a developer can come up with! Many other systems do this, and the fact that Koha lacks this functionality was (and is!) surprising to me. I would think that a Not For Loan value based on shelving location would override & take priority over an itype being normally locanable.
+1 Until recently I thought it was possible to set this as the default for some LOC.
I think this might be a duplicate of 17593?
Seems very similar, yes.
Reading 17593 I wonder, then, why there is a setting for Not For Loan status in the Administration area of item types, vs. setting it in circulation rules--the cataloger in me wants a Not For Loan status for One Sort of Thing set in one place (and Administration is not as huge as the circulation rules/table), and the system-adminstrator-ish part of me doesn't want the circulation rules/table getting bigger--it's So Huge!:) But if I could have locations set to Not For Loan *somewhere* and *somehow* that's the important thing!
Yeah "Not for loan" has been pretty problematic to date. Actually, item status in general is... not good. It's only in the last year or two that I've added support to the ILS-DI to properly handle not for loan set at the item type level...