Circulation module basics - Renewing a book

Date: April 6, 2022

1. Find the patron

Place your cursor in the Search box on the Koha dashboard. Making sure the 'Check out' tab is highlighted.

2. Enter patrons name

Find the patron's account by searching for them (last name, first name). Click on the patron's details link to go to their account.

3. Checkout(s) table

The Checkout(s) table will be displayed showing the patrons loans

4. Check Renew

On the far right hand side of the table you will see a column labelled 'Renew'

5. Check the tick box against any of the book's the patron wishes to renew.

You can find information on how many renewals are remaining for the book in this column too under the tick box.

6. Click on the 'Renew or check in selected items' button to renew the selected items

7. To renew all books at once either click 'select all' at the top of the renew column to select all books

8. Or click the 'Renew all' button at the bottom of the table

9. Confirm renewal

Successful renewals will show in the Renew column - the number of renewals remaining will decrease.

And the new due date can be seen in the due date column on the left hand side of the Checkout(s) table.