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

[Terran McCanna]

Yes, me too. I tweaked a few little things on ours with the layout, but
nothing major.

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 Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:

> Josh,
>
> I would like to also see customizations you made made to Self-Check code,
> so I can get ideas. I had been meaning to ask you when I saw this thread.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Yamil
>
>
>
>
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> Yamil Suarez, MCS
> Associate Director of Library Systems & Web Development
>
> Stan Getz Library
> Berklee College of Music
> 1140 Boylston St
> Boston, MA 02215
>
> ysuarez at berklee.edu
> 617-747-2617 <(617)%20747-2617>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Josh Stompro <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Joe, I have a fix for keeping the cursor focus always on the scan box.
>> We also use touch screens for our self checks and we were having trouble
>> with the fact that it was easy to move the focus, which would cause the
>> next scan to silently fail, and sometimes switch screens.
>>
>> I have a bug report on it, but haven’t actually posted the code there
>> yet.  I’ll try and do that soon.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1560601
>>
>>
>>
>> We have also had trouble with the print list button that exists on the
>> checkout screen.  Some significant portion of users would press that when
>> they were done, get a printout and then walk away.  I guess they thought
>> that was the logout and print a receipt button.  Then the next users would
>> walk up and sometime check out items on the first person’s account.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1555791
>>
>>
>>
>> I would love to collaborate with you on making the self check more touch
>> screen friendly.  I can share the css changes I’ve made just to enlarge
>> everything to make it easier to see and to make the buttons easier to press.
>>
>>
>>
>> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounc
>> es at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Joe Knueven
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2017 10:58 AM
>> *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media
>> cases
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 <(937)%20855-4001>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounc
>> es at list.georgialibraries.org
>> <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.georgia
>> libraries.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 <(404)%20235-7138>
>> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Mike Rylander <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
>>  | 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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