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

[Bill Ott]

On 7/26/17 10:10 AM, Mike Rylander 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.


Certainly still in use. No case locking/unlocking but a whole lot of 
"non-library" RFID equipment being interfaced with Evergreen.



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> Mike Rylander
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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.  :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>