[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Georgette Rogers]

I completely agree, we have a pop up now that tells us what item we have given our homebound patrons,  with lists of their likes and dislikes, etc.  Not having this is a big draw back, we are looking at Evergreen as a potential new ILS within the next year or so and this is something I would definately want the system to be able to do.  Tell us if patron has already checked out the item.  When you have a lot of patrons using this system, andyou are taking 5-10 books a month, you loose track.

Please consider this as an option for Evergreen.

Thank you


Georgette Rogers
Circulation Supervisor
Liberty Lake Municipal Library
23123 E  Mission Ave
Liberty Lake, WA 99019
509-435-0778
1-866-729-8507
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From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Garry Collum [gcollum at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:16 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

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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