----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kate Sheehan" <[email protected]> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:27:24 AM > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound? > Even what Dan describes is more functionality than I've ever seen with > Homebound designations. In my experience, it's just a longer loan > period and usually a few notes on the patron record about reading > preferences and a list of people who are allowed to check books out on > the homebound patron's behalf. Something that checked to see if the > person had ever read a title before would be great.
In PINES we just have an Outreach profile with a longer loan period - seems to work for our libraries without desire for more functionality, FWIW. Chris > A Netflixesque queue would be incredible for any patron, homebound or > not. > Kate > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Dan Scott > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:18 AM > To: Evergreen Discussion Group > Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound? > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Rick Scott > <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Janet Snowhill:) > >> I forgot to ask anyone, at the conference, whether Evergreen has a > >> homebound function, and if so, how it works. Can anyone address > >> that, for me? > > > > Unfortunately, at this point there is not. I know that this is > > something North Bay Public was interested in, and one of my > > colleagues > > took a stab at getting something implemented during the conference, > > but I'm not sure that he got very far with it. > > IIRC, a "Homebound" patron is a patron who can't come into the library > themselves; the library checks out items on their behalf (doing the > selection of items as well). As it was explained to me, the bar is > low: all that the Homebound feature in a different ILS does is check, > at checkout time, if a patron has ever checked out the same item > before (well, walk up to bib record I suppose). Homebound patrons > would needs to have a stat cat or user setting or belong to a specific > profile to identify them as "homebound" and trigger the check. -- Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 [email protected] http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
