Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upcoming development projects from MassLNC

[Diane Disbro]

There is some good stuff here. Thank you!

 

Diane Disbro

Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator

Union Branch

Scenic Regional Library

308 Hawthorne Drive

Union, MO 63084

(636) 583-3224

www.scenicregional.org

 

 

 

From: Open-ils-general 
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy 
Lussier
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 2:08 PM
To: 'Evergreen Discussion Group'
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upcoming development projects from MassLNC

 

Hi all,

MassLNC is considering a handful of development projects to fund over the 
coming months. The
projects are listed below.

I'm sharing these projects with the community to see if anyone has feedback on 
general concept behind the projects or the proposed 
implementations. Also, if anyone is already working on one of these projects, 
or a similar one, please let me know so that we don't duplicate efforts. I also 
have a specific question on the first listed project. 

 

*   Improvements for Hopeless Holds - http://masslnc.org/node/3388 - this 
project would provide a new interface for managing hopeless holds. In the 
current description, we identify hopeless holds as ones that do not have copies 
in the hold_copy_map. However, we do have at least one site that has holdable 
statuses that they would want to show up as hopeless holds. Our current 
requirements don't cover this use case, but I wanted to throw the idea out 
there in case anyone had ideas of a way to incorporate those with little 
additional development.
*   Update hold information when patron contact information is updated - 
http://masslnc.org/node/3388 - this project would prompt staff and the public 
to update holds contact information when phone and SMS numbers are updated in 
their record and in their hold preferences.
*   Test notification method - http://masslnc.org/node/3377 - an easy way 
for staff or patrons to test the e-mail or SMS number on their account.
*   Support for inventory date - http://masslnc.org/node/3379 - the 
addition of some inventory-related fields to the copy could help libraries 
performing inventory. It could be added to a copy at checkin through the use of 
a checkin modifier or from the item status page.
*   Improvements to Deletion of Serials Items - 
http://masslnc.org/node/3383 - When deleting these items, linked copies will be 
removed and summary statements will be updated.
*   Improvements to Spine Label printing - http://masslnc.org/node/3386 - 
specifically, support for sheet label printing.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments on these 
projects!

Kathy

-- 
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP authentication

[Holly Brennan]

We use SIP authentication for any online resource that is set up to handle it 
(Overdrive, Lynda.com) as well as in-house for our computer management system 
(formally Envisionware, currently CASSIE from Librarica), our wireless 
internet, and WorldCat.

We control the "block" levels in Evergreen using Group Policy Thresholds. For 
example, with patrons who exceed $10 in fines the PATRON_EXCEEDS_FINES penalty 
is applied. In addition to a few other policies that rarely go into effect, 
expired accounts are also blocked (great way to get someone to let us know 
their new address).

I can't recall ever having a problem with SIP authentication going wrong in 
Evergreen. It's pretty great! (IP authentication seems to always have issues 
with addresses changing, vendors simply losing them or getting the addresses 
confused...) The effort to get SIP set up is definitely worth it.

-Holly


Holly Brennan
Technology Specialist
Homer Public Library
Homer, Alaska

hbren...@cityofhomer-ak.gov
907-435-3154 (direct)
907-235-3180 (main desk)



From: Open-ils-general 
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Diane 
Disbro
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 7:59 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP authentication

Good morning -

Do you block patrons with fines/expired accounts from using your online 
resources? How do you accomplish that?

We recently found out that our patrons with fines/expired accounts are using 
our resources and neither our IT department nor the vendors we have contacted 
know how to prevent that from happening.

Thank you.

Diane Disbro
Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator
Union Branch
Scenic Regional Library
308 Hawthorne Drive
Union, MO 63084
(636) 583-3224
www.scenicregional.org

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP authentication

[Josh Stompro]

Hello Diane,   Our EG/SIPServer setup does include patron expiration info, and 
how much the user owes.  That can be used by the vendor to block access based 
on the account being expired and owing more than a certain amount.  But the 
vendor that is using SIP2 to authenticate has to handle that logic on their 
end.  The sip response just sends the data about blocks in the message.

It looks like the AF field also get set to blocked as well as the expiration 
date being sent in the PA field in the case of the account being expired.

In the case of owing too much, the AF field again is set to "blocked" and the 
BV field has the total owed.

So all they should have to do is look for AF = blocked and then refuse the 
authentication request.  It seems like if you give them a few example test 
accounts they should be able to figure it out.

That said, you may still run into vendors that refuse to handle things 
correctly on their end.  You could also look into modifying the SIPServer 
software to short circuit the patron info/patron status responses.  We just did 
something similar to keep patrons in certain profile groups from logging into 
certain services.  OCLC refused our request for them to make use of the 
permission group info that gets sent along with the 64 patron status response, 
so we had to handle it on our end.  I can give you details on the changes we 
made if you want to go down that route.

Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director

From: Open-ils-general 
[mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Diane 
Disbro
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2018 10:59 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group 
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP authentication

Good morning -

Do you block patrons with fines/expired accounts from using your online 
resources? How do you accomplish that?

We recently found out that our patrons with fines/expired accounts are using 
our resources and neither our IT department nor the vendors we have contacted 
know how to prevent that from happening.

Thank you.

Diane Disbro
Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator
Union Branch
Scenic Regional Library
308 Hawthorne Drive
Union, MO 63084
(636) 583-3224
www.scenicregional.org

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Upcoming development projects from MassLNC

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

MassLNC is considering a handful of development projects to fund over 
the coming months. The

projects are listed below.

I'm sharing these projects with the community to see if anyone has 
feedback on general concept behind the projects or the proposed
implementations. Also, if anyone is already working on one of these 
projects, or a similar one, please let me know so that we don't 
duplicate efforts. I also have a specific question on the first listed 
project.


 * Improvements for Hopeless Holds - http://masslnc.org/node/3388 -
   this project would provide a new interface for managing hopeless
   holds. In the current description, we identify hopeless holds as
   ones that do not have copies in the hold_copy_map. However, we do
   have at least one site that has holdable statuses that they would
   want to show up as hopeless holds. Our current requirements don't
   cover this use case, but I wanted to throw the idea out there in
   case anyone had ideas of a way to incorporate those with little
   additional development.
 * Update hold information when patron contact information is updated -
   http://masslnc.org/node/3388 - this project would prompt staff and
   the public to update holds contact information when phone and SMS
   numbers are updated in their record and in their hold preferences.
 * Test notification method - http://masslnc.org/node/3377 - an easy
   way for staff or patrons to test the e-mail or SMS number on their
   account.
 * Support for inventory date - http://masslnc.org/node/3379 - the
   addition of some inventory-related fields to the copy could help
   libraries performing inventory. It could be added to a copy at
   checkin through the use of a checkin modifier or from the item
   status page.
 * Improvements to Deletion of Serials Items -
   http://masslnc.org/node/3383 - When deleting these items, linked
   copies will be removed and summary statements will be updated.
 * Improvements to Spine Label printing - http://masslnc.org/node/3386
   - specifically, support for sheet label printing.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments on these 
projects!


Kathy

--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] SIP authentication

[Diane Disbro]

Good morning -

 

Do you block patrons with fines/expired accounts from using your online
resources? How do you accomplish that?

 

We recently found out that our patrons with fines/expired accounts are using
our resources and neither our IT department nor the vendors we have
contacted know how to prevent that from happening.

 

Thank you.

 

Diane Disbro

Branch Manager/Circulation Coordinator

Union Branch

Scenic Regional Library

308 Hawthorne Drive

Union, MO 63084

(636) 583-3224

www.scenicregional.org