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9.17. Appendix Q: Circulation Modifiers

Last Updated 04/03/2025

NC Cardinal Circulation Modifiers

These are the circulation modifiers that may be used in NC Cardinal. Circulation modifiers are an important factor for building circulation and hold policies. The consortium moderates the list to limit complexity while ensuring that libraries have sufficient options for circulation and hold policies. Any request to add new circulation modifiers must be submitted to and approved by the Cataloging Committee.

Circulation modifiers appear in the dropdown list in Item Attributes and must be applied for every item in the catalog. Holdings tags for batch import must use the exact format, spelling, and capitalization shown.

Resource Sharing: NC Cardinal has hold policies that allow all items with BOOK, AUDIOBOOK, VIDEO & MUSIC circulation modifiers to be available for resource sharing, unless the shelving location or item prevents holds (such as reference or genealogy items.)

By default, Cardinal-wide hold policies are set up for all the other circmods so holds can not be placed on them, unless your library system has requested a hold policy to allow your patrons to place holds on items with those circmods. By default, hold policies for these non-resource sharing circulation modifiers will be set it so that holds can be placed only by your patrons, unless you specify that you want those items to be eligible for resource sharing.