[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What are your requirements for Evergreen?

[Deb Bergeron]

To piggy-back on Advance Booking:

As a consortium, we like advance booking as well.  However, we have 
libraries that use the bookings module to book not only items, but 
rooms, computers, video equipment, etc.  It would be great to have the 
ability to create different material types that could be booked.  Of 
course, we also need it to work consortial-wide so that every library 
can see what's booked and available.

Deb

geoffs at eclibrary.ca wrote:
> Quoting Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com>:
>
>>> 2) Advance booking
>>> Similar to holds, except we would like the ability to reserve
>>> materials for a specific time in the future (e.g., a professor wants
>>> to show a video in a class two months from now). So, if the material
>>> is checked out slightly before the time, the loan period might need to
>>> be shortened. Also, the ability to create recurring bookings and to
>>> add many items into one booking (like a shopping cart). It gets a bit
>>> tricky when we have multiple, identical copies of an item to be
>>> booked...
>>
>> Would you want patrons (or specific groups of patrons) to be able to
>> place an advance booking directly, or would you prefer requests to be
>> mediated through a staff person? Or perhaps allow patrons to place
>> requests, but have them mediated electronically?
>
> Right now, patrons go through a staff person, and these functions are
> only available via the staff interface. For us, requesting advance 
> bookings
> directly and electronic mediation would be "nice to haves".
>
> Thanks Dan!
>
>

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