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

[Mike Rylander]

Terran,

Hrm... Renewal seems to work fine.  You just scan an item that's
already checked out and it figures out that a renewal is in order and
available.

Also, just as a note, the UI got a nice update about a year ago to add
the ability to email receipts, including using patron defaults for
that.

HTH,

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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
> 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
>>
>>
>
>