[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons

[Rogan Hamby]

We actually discussed that during the Loblolly event a few years ago as something that would be nice for home bound / TBS support and I think would be nice for many patrons.  Somewhere the notes from that discussion are still floating around.  That was to satisfy some pretty broad needs by qualifier and genre.  Were you thinking more narrowly by author?

Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone 

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Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA
Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, 
York County Library System

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” 
― C.S. Lewis


> On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Chauncey Montgomery <montgoc1 at oplin.org> wrote:
> 
> Our patrons would like us to maintain standing hold requests, similar to standing order plans we use with vendors, where they could be placed on hold for every book published by certain authors.  We offered this service for years, but stopped because it was extremely laborious.
> 
> I was wondering how other libraries approached such requests. If you provide such a service, do you maintain a separate system (database, spreadsheet, paper, etc.)?  Has anyone developed a system that utilizes Evergreen to help automate such a process?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> CM
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> Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS
> Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library
> 44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074
> 740-965-3901 | http://community.lib.oh.us
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