[Evergreen-general] Book lockers?

[Lindsay Stratton]

Hi Terran,

We have a library that uses Bibliotheca lockers.

We created a "branch" OU that appears as a pickup up library,
has circulation policies (we don't really use inherited circ rules, so
ymmv), open hours, etc. It is not otherwise OPAC visible. Staff have
accounts with working locations and workstations for the locker branch in
order to process incoming materials. Otherwise, transactions are processed
via SIP so there is not a lot of Evergreen configuration. Most of the work
is done in a Bibliotheca interface, which I don't have any clue about. The
lockers are configured to check the item out to the patron as soon as the
locker is unlocked.

We have experienced all sorts of weird issues, which generally seem to be
related to patrons who have items in multiple lockers, multiple items in
one locker, and patrons who cancel holds once they have been put into the
locker (this is an Evergreen setting, and behavior we generally allow, so
also, ymmv. Personally, I don't recommend it!) That said, it's been a while
since issues were reported, so maybe things have been resolved on
Bibliotheca's end.

I can put you in touch with someone from that library, if that would be
helpful.

Lindsay


*Lindsay Stratton*
*Integrated Library System Administrator / Systems Librarian*
Westchester Library System
570 Taxter Rd., 4th Floor
Elmsford, NY 10523
lstratton at wlsmail.org


On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM Terran McCanna via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Have any of you implemented book lockers with Evergreen? Several of our
> libraries are planning to order them, but we don't have any that have
> actually implemented them so I'm curious about the technical process.
>
> It looks like most of the vendors require a separate pickup location,
> which makes sense (although it would be nice if we could designate org
> units only as pickup locations but otherwise be opac-invisible), but I'm
> not sure how the actual checkout process works. Are things automatically
> checked out to the patrons as soon as the locker is opened? Or is there
> another staff action that needs to be taken?
>
> If you wouldn't mind indicating the vendor that you have used
> successfully, that would also be most helpful.
>
> Thank you!
> Terran
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