Circulation module basics - Renewing a book
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Created Apr 06, 2022

Circulation module basics - Renewing a book

You can simply renew books using the Renew tab on the dashboard. The following method describes renewing items via the patron module which provides more information about the patron's loans.

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9 Steps
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Find the patron

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

Find the patron
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Enter patrons name

Find the patron's account by searching for them. Click on the patron's details link to go to their account.

Enter patrons name
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Checkout(s) table

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

Checkout(s) table
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Check Renew

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

Check Renew
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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.

Check the tick box against any of the book's the patron wishes to renew.
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Click on the 'Renew or check in selected items' button to renew the selected items

Click on the 'Renew or check in selected items' button to renew the selected items
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To renew all books at once either click 'select all' at the top of the renew column to select all books

To renew all books at once either click 'select all' at the top of the renew column to select all books
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Or click the 'Renew all' button at the bottom of the table

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

Confirm renewal
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