Show notation in catalog for previously borrowed title

[Ruth Frasur]

Submitted by Elizabeth Thomsen

If a patron is logged in and has opted into retaining checkout history, add a notation like “Borrowed 10/29/2018” to titles that are in the patron’s checkout history, similar to the way Amazon shows a note when you’re looking at the record for a product you’ve previously purchased.

This can be helpful whether you want to avoid taking out something you’ve previously borrowed or if that’s what you’re trying to do. There could be an option in Checkout History that patrons could use if they didn’t want to see these notations.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1878656

[Benjamin Kalish]

I like this. I think it would be good to show the number of times it had been borrowed as well, though it would be overly verbose to specify both a date and the number of times. Perhaps we could use:

• “Borrowed 10/29/2018” for items that have been borrowed just once
• “Borrowed x4” for items that have been borrowed two or more times; clicking on the text could display a list of recent checkout dates

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