The additional fields for the Closure Days category type allow the definition of the days on which the library is declared 'closed', and which results in the algorithmic additional of days to a loan duration.

The additional fields include:

• Workstation - the workstations in the library that this definition affects. This field is a legacy field from the desktop environment, and can be ignored in the Mystic Online application.

• Start Date - the first date on which the calculation will begin (e.g. a Saturday for a weekend closure)

• Duration - the span of days in this definition, beginning on the start date (above), when the library will be closed. For a weekend, closure the duration will be 2.

• Repetition - the nature of the repetition of the definition selected from Weekly, Monthly, Yearly or No Repetition.

Note, a definition for repeating closures is not required for each occasion of the closure. Weekend closures for example, can be defined as starting on a Saturday with 2 day duration and set to Weekly. From the selected date onwards, all weekends will be regarded as a closure date from the start date into the future. Only one 'weekend closure' item need ever be created.

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