[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Kate Sheehan]

Even what Dan describes is more functionality than I've ever seen with Homebound designations. In my experience, it's just a longer loan period and usually a few notes on the patron record about reading preferences and a list of people who are allowed to check books out on the homebound patron's behalf. Something that checked to see if the person had ever read a title before would be great. 

A Netflixesque queue would be incredible for any patron, homebound or not. 
Kate

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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:18 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

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.