[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Garry Collum]

I see Homebound, not only containing wish lists and longer circulation
times, but also containing a history of the items a patron has read,
notes containing the type of materials a patron likes to read
(Mystery, Romance, etc), notes for special needs (Large type, audio),
preferred delivery days and times, and the possibility to create
"best" routes for the delivery drivers.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> I'd be interested in knowing what a homebound module means to
> different folks.  My impression is that it's like a Netflix queue, and
> maybe with a recommendation service and/or something like standing
> orders in acquisitions where you might say "give me anything by this
> author when it comes in"?
>
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