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

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

By author would be excellent.  By series would be another popular one 
here -- we occasionally get requests to do that.

I'm very interested in this, and additional improvements w/r/t 
Patron-Driven Acquisitions -- right now all that is on paper for us and 
it is indeed laborious and time-consuming, but understandably quite 
popular with patrons.




Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS
Librarian II, Public Services
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-3636 x2115
www.kentcountylibrary.org

On 4/29/2014 1:29 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
> 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
>
> -- 
>
> 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 <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Chauncey Montgomery <montgoc1 at oplin.org 
> <mailto: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
>> -- 
>> 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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