Tip for: 03.06.17
If you are #136 in line for the latest Potter-Twilight-Hunger-Wimpy-Lunar book, but you don’t want the hold to come in until you’ve re-read the entire series again, there’s a simple solution: Suspend the hold for a few months.
When a hold is ‘suspended’ it acts like a normal hold until you reach #1. Then, at #1, you stay #1 until the Suspend Until date is reached, whereupon you get the next returned copy. This is especially useful if you are going on vacation and know you won’t be able to pick the book up until after you return!
To suspend a hold in v7:
Make the patron current.Go to the Holds'Holds' tab, the Patron subtab.
Log in.Go to the Activities tab, the Holds subtab.
Version 6 Workaround
It’s not simple, but there is a way to manually ‘suspend’ a hold for a patron in v6. If you know that patron is on vacation, or won’t be available to pick up their book, or they’ve even asked you to make sure it doesn’t come in until they’ve seen the movies… all you have to do is bump that patron to the end of the hold queue.
There! Now the hold won’t come in for that patron until they’re ready for it!