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

[Josh Stompro]

Here are links to the bugs for the issues mentioned by Terran:

1.      #1512171 Wishlist: Self Check Item Renewal without item present<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1512171>

2.      #1528685 Self-check - pay fines doesn't work with Stripe<https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1528685>


Please comment and mark the bugs as affecting you.  Also, if you have an internal process for choosing which development projects to fund, you could add some of the self check bugs to the list of items to consider.

We are one of the sites that heavily use the self check feature, it handles between 50% and 90% of the checkouts at our sites.  This discussion reminds me that we need to put some time and money into improving it.

Josh Stompro - LARL

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Terran McCanna
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 10:16 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
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,

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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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