Homebound for us is defined as a library patron who is unable to physically
visit the library due to age, physical limitations or health considerations.
We have a staff member who selects materials for the homebound based on
their requests and their reading preferences. One of the features that we
used with our previous homebound module was the ability to track what the
homebound patrons have read and to rate the items based on how much they
enjoyed them. We used this to determine what authors, genres, subjects,
formats, etc. that they would like in the future.
Shasta P. Brewer
Deputy Director
York County Library
113 E. Main St., Ste 100
PO Box 10032
Rock Hill, SC 29731
803-981-5835
Fax: 803-981-5895
www.yclibrary.org
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1. Re: Homebound? (Joel Harbottle)
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Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 14:51:43 +1000
From: Joel Harbottle <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Homebound?
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Hi Jason,
In Australia, the definition of ?Homebound? in Libraries, is Patron?s who
are unable to come into the physical Library for one reason or another.
Usually, in our cases, elderly who are unable to travel, or people whom are
disabled. Therefore, there items they borrow from the Library are delivered
to them by either a Library Staff member acting as a Courier, or a family
member whom comes into the Library and collects their items and delivers
them to them.
Homebound Patron?s place Hold?s on items they would like to borrow from the
Library via the OPAC, or by phoning the Library and Library Staff places
the hold for them.
The Pickup Location of the Homebound Patron is always the Patron?s Home
Library, and when the item is checked in the ILS will notify Library Staff
of the hold and that the requesting Patron is a Homebound Patron.
I hope this explanation helps in some form of understanding the various
definitions of ?Homebound?.
Kindest Regards,
Joel
> From: Jason Etheridge <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:14:43 -0400
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
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> 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.
>
> I'd be interested in knowing what a homebound module means to
> different folks. My impression is that it's like a Netflix queue, and
> maybe with a recommendation service and/or something like standing
> orders in acquisitions where you might say "give me anything by this
> author when it comes in"?
>
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