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

[Mike Rylander]

Interestingly, Grand Rapids PL (Bill Ott) has done exactly that:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?9914

I'm not sure if it's still in use, though.

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Rogan Hamby
<rhamby at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:
> 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.  :)
>
>
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>
> Rogan Hamby
>
> Data and Project Analyst
>
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
>
> phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>
> email:  rogan at EquinoxInitiative.org
>
> web:  http://EquinoxInitiative.org
>
> 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
>> 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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