[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation - Two enhancements needed for our schools

[Dan Scott]

Hey Amy:

Just wanted to let you know that I plan to approach our library
directors to see if they would be willing to contribute some funding
to the development effort; certainly our academic sites would be
interested.

Dan

On 26 May 2010 15:13, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
> Hi all—
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> I know that eventually there will be a place that we all can go to see which
> Evergreen sites are working toward which enhancements to the system, but in
> the meantime …
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> Bibliomation has asked ESI to provide us with development cost / time
> estimates for the following two functionality specifications for our k-12
> schools:
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> End of school year due dates
> Hard due dates
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> If your library system would also benefit from either/both of these
> enhancements and would like to share the cost with us, please email me at
> terlaga at biblio.org.  If you need something added to either of these
> enhancements to make them work in your library setting, it’s not too late to
> influence the development!
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> DESCRIPTION OF BOTH ENHANCEMENTS --
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> End of semester hard due dates.
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> We need school items to not be able to be checked out beyond a specific date
> and school items will 'age to lost' by a specific date set by the school.
> This must work at the branch level.
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> Example:  The Lebanon Schools have three branches – the elementary school,
> the middle school, and the high school.
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> The elementary school wants their end-of-semester due date to be June 21st.
> Their loan period is 21 days.  On June 2nd, the due date should still come
> up as June 21st.  On June 3rd, the due date should still come up as June
> 21st.  And so on and so on until June 21st is reached.
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> Meanwhile, the middle school and the high school each want their
> end-of-semester due date to be June 30th.  Their loan periods are also 21
> days, but that June 30th date should hold 21 days prior to June 30th, at 20
> days prior to June 30th, at 19 days prior to June 30th, and so on, until
> June 30th is reached.
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> ‘AGE to LOST”
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> After the end-of-school-year date is reached for the individual school,
> there should be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that
> students can be immediately notified as to what items are still out and now
> considered lost.
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> Hard due dates for specific patron profile groups.
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> We need school items to use a specific date for their due date the whole
> school year for faculty; these same school items will 'age to lost' by a
> specific date set by the school.  This must work at the branch level.
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> Example:  The Lebanon Schools have three branches – the elementary school,
> the middle school, and the high school.
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> The elementary school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June 21st.
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> Meanwhile, the middle school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June
> 18th and the high school wants its hard due date for faculty to be June
> 30th.
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> ‘AGE to LOST”
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> After the hard due date is reached for the individual school, there should
> be a way to quickly move the item to lost status so that faculty can be
> immediately notified as to what items are still out and now considered lost.
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> Amy Terlaga
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