Loan Out Service Questions

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Last updated: Apr 21, 2010
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  • Not clear if need separate information for ingoing versus outgoing loans, although they are not necessarily symmetric. (Follow-up note: the Loan Out Service is being modeled and implemented separately from the Loan In Service, and each has its own, similar but distinctive schema for procedural records.)
  • If wanted to support automation of info transfer between institutions for a loan, would have to take care to model for symmetry (e.g., with a loaned-object schema).
  • Does Loan have a hierarchic aspect? I.e., will there be a notion of a grouping Loan that gathers up separate but somehow related Loans? An Exhibition might require multiple (incoming) Loans, but would there be a reason to group Loans?