[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Sharp, Chris]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kate Sheehan" <ksheehan at biblio.org>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:27:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?
> 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.

In PINES we just have an Outreach profile with a longer loan period - seems to work for our libraries without desire for more functionality, FWIW.

Chris

> A Netflixesque queue would be incredible for any patron, homebound or
> not.
> Kate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.

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Chris Sharp
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
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