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

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Joe,

I don't have any customizations, but for the specific improvement you 
mention, you might want to take a look at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1494748

It's available in 2.12

Kathy


On 07/26/2017 11:58 AM, Joe Knueven wrote:
>
> While we’re on the subject of user-friendliness of the built in 
> self-checkout, does anyone have any .tt2 modifications that they are 
> pleased with and would be willing to share?
>
> I’ve had tweaking the scripting to make the navigation links more 
> button like (ie touch screen friendly) on my to-do list, but it’s 
> taken me an especially long time to get around to the first step of 
> teaching myself a basic amount of tt2 scripting.
>
> Have a good day.
>
> Joe
>
> Joseph Knueven, Director
>
> Germantown Public Library
>
> 51 North Plum Street
>
> Germantown, OH 45327
>
> 937-855-4001
>
> *From:*Open-ils-general 
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf 
> Of *Terran McCanna
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:16 AM
> *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group 
> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking 
> media cases
>
> >>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.<<
>
> Interesting. There's nothing in the interface that tells the patron 
> that they can do that, or that tells them how. Patrons typically don't 
> have books in hand when they wish to renew, so they'd need to 
> understand that they could go to the Items out screen and copy and 
> paste the barcodes. Online instructions would help, but it still 
> wouldn't as user friendly as the method of renewal in My Account.
>
>
>
> Terran McCanna
> PINES Program Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
> Atlanta, GA 30345
> 404-235-7138
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org <mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mrylander at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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,
>
>     --
>     Mike Rylander
>      | President
>      | Equinox Open Library Initiative
>      | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>      | email: miker at equinoxinitiative.org
>     <mailto:miker at equinoxinitiative.org>
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>
>
>     On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Terran McCanna
>     <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto: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 <tel:404-235-7138>
>     > tmccanna at georgialibraries.org <mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Jesse McCarty
>     <jessem at burlingtonwa.gov <mailto: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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Kathy Lussier
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Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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