[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media cases

[Rogan Hamby]

Just a quick thought that regardless of where the code resided to do the
unlocking (internal to Evergreen or in a third party product) some third
party hardware would be required to do this so the inherent division
between ILS code and vendor hardware is always going to be there and
therefore it's more likely that the unlocking will remain on the side of
the hardware vendor.

That isn't to say that someone couldn't write their own native Evergreen
client to do all this with their own hardware but the task would be ...
non-trivial.  :)




Rogan Hamby

Data and Project Analyst

Equinox Open Library Initiative

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> Hi Jesse,
>
> I just wanted to chime in that I'm not aware of anyone who is working on
> developing functionality like that. The self-check interface hasn't gotten
> a lot of attention in the past few years, possibly because not a lot of
> libraries are using it. (Only 2 or 3 libraries out of our 285 total
> libraries that have opted to use it.) There are a number of things that
> could be done to improve it which would encourage more people to adopt it,
> like adding the ability to pay fines through the same functionality that
> the OPAC uses, and to allow patrons to renew books through it.
>
>
>
> Terran McCanna
> PINES Program Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
> Atlanta, GA 30345
> 404-235-7138 <(404)%20235-7138>
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Jesse McCarty <jessem at burlingtonwa.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently we are running an ITG self-check system that utilizes magnetic
>> locking cases for DVDs and CDs. I know the documentation references no
>> security mechanisms in Evergreen self-check, but I was wondering if there
>> is a way for the Evergreen self-check to interact/activate the magnetic
>> unlockers for security cases? Is this a sought after feature/planned
>> possibility? Or is the built in self-check designed to be nothing more than
>> its current basic form?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jesse McCarty
>>
>> City of Burlington
>>
>> IT Technical Assistant
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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