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

[Rogan Hamby]

And that is the beauty of open source.   :)




Rogan Hamby

Data and Project Analyst

Equinox Open Library Initiative

phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)

email:  rogan at EquinoxInitiative.org
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Mike Rylander
>  | President
>  | Equinox Open Library Initiative
>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>  | email:  miker at equinoxinitiative.org
>  | web:  http://equinoxinitiative.org
>
>
> 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.  :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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