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Policies and how to assign them

Miss Honey just set some new policies for her library, but she doesn’t remember how to assign them.

Policies are important because they establish rules that regulate how library resources are used by your patrons, including how items circulate, how long items can be checked out, how much overdue fines cost, whether an item can leave the building, and more.

But how can you assign them once they are created?

Restricted items–using patron alert notes

Janet’s mother asked Miss Zarves to make sure her daughter doesn’t check out any movies from the school library that aren’t G-rated. But what’s the easiest way to keep track of that–especially if multiple parents are asking for different restrictions on what their kids can check out from the library?