[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?

[Joel Harbottle]

Hi Jason,

In Australia, the definition of ŒHomebound¹ in Libraries, is Patron¹s who
are unable to come into the physical Library for one reason or another.
Usually, in our cases, elderly who are unable to travel, or people whom are
disabled. Therefore, there items they borrow from the Library are delivered
to them by either a Library Staff member acting as a Courier, or a family
member whom comes into the Library and collects their items and delivers
them to them.

Homebound Patron¹s place Hold¹s on items they would like to borrow from the
Library via the OPAC,  or by phoning the Library and Library Staff places
the hold for them. 

The Pickup Location of the Homebound Patron is always the Patron¹s Home
Library, and when the item is checked in the ILS will notify Library Staff
of the hold and that the requesting Patron is a Homebound Patron.

I hope this explanation helps in some form of understanding the various
definitions of ŒHomebound¹.

Kindest Regards,
Joel




> From: Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>
> Reply-To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:14:43 -0400
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> 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.
> 
> 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"?
> 
> -- 
> Jason Etheridge
>  | VP, Tactical Development
>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source
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