[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Dan Scott]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Rick Scott <rick at shadowspar.dyndns.org> wrote:
> (Janet Snowhill:)
>> I forgot to ask anyone, at the conference, whether Evergreen has a homebound
>> function, and if so, how it works. Can anyone address that, for me?
>
> Unfortunately, at this point there is not.  I know that this is
> something North Bay Public was interested in, and one of my colleagues
> took a stab at getting something implemented during the conference,
> but I'm not sure that he got very far with it.

IIRC, a "Homebound" patron is a patron who can't come into the library
themselves; the library checks out items on their behalf (doing the
selection of items as well). As it was explained to me, the bar is
low: all that the Homebound feature in a different ILS does is check,
at checkout time, if a patron has ever checked out the same item
before (well, walk up to bib record I suppose). Homebound patrons
would needs to have a stat cat or user setting or belong to a specific
profile to identify them as "homebound" and trigger the check.