[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self-Registration and Immediate Access to Services

[Bill Erickson]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Justin Hopkins 📖 <
justin at mobiusconsortium.org> wrote:

> To go off on a bit of a tangent (it's related, I promise) there is also
> the issue of Evergreen offering a way to validate users without them being
> physically present at the library.
>
> As more and more of our resources are electronic, it makes sense to have a
> form of electronic patron validation as well. It may be a good solution to
> both of these issues if our self-registration form had the ability to use a
> webcam to take a picture of a person and their ID with valid address.
>

+1 to this.  And if I can convince Amazon to sell me wine, surely there's a
way to validate patrons without requiring them to come to the library.

-b
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