[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons
Our patrons would like us to maintain standing hold requests, similar to standing order plans we use with vendors, where they could be placed on hold for every book published by certain authors. We offered this service for years, but stopped because it was extremely laborious. I was wondering how other libraries approached such requests. If you provide such a service, do you maintain a separate system (database, spreadsheet, paper, etc.)? Has anyone developed a system that utilizes Evergreen to help automate such a process? Thanks in advance. CM -- Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library 44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074 740-965-3901 | http://community.lib.oh.us
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons
We actually discussed that during the Loblolly event a few years ago as something that would be nice for home bound / TBS support and I think would be nice for many patrons. Somewhere the notes from that discussion are still floating around. That was to satisfy some pretty broad needs by qualifier and genre. Were you thinking more narrowly by author? Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Chauncey Montgomery montg...@oplin.org wrote: Our patrons would like us to maintain standing hold requests, similar to standing order plans we use with vendors, where they could be placed on hold for every book published by certain authors. We offered this service for years, but stopped because it was extremely laborious. I was wondering how other libraries approached such requests. If you provide such a service, do you maintain a separate system (database, spreadsheet, paper, etc.)? Has anyone developed a system that utilizes Evergreen to help automate such a process? Thanks in advance. CM -- Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library 44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074 740-965-3901 | http://community.lib.oh.us
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons
By author would be excellent. By series would be another popular one here -- we occasionally get requests to do that. I'm very interested in this, and additional improvements w/r/t Patron-Driven Acquisitions -- right now all that is on paper for us and it is indeed laborious and time-consuming, but understandably quite popular with patrons. Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS Librarian II, Public Services Kent County Public Library 408 High Street Chestertown, MD 21620 410-778-3636 x2115 www.kentcountylibrary.org On 4/29/2014 1:29 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: We actually discussed that during the Loblolly event a few years ago as something that would be nice for home bound / TBS support and I think would be nice for many patrons. Somewhere the notes from that discussion are still floating around. That was to satisfy some pretty broad needs by qualifier and genre. Were you thinking more narrowly by author? Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Chauncey Montgomery montg...@oplin.org mailto:montg...@oplin.org wrote: Our patrons would like us to maintain standing hold requests, similar to standing order plans we use with vendors, where they could be placed on hold for every book published by certain authors. We offered this service for years, but stopped because it was extremely laborious. I was wondering how other libraries approached such requests. If you provide such a service, do you maintain a separate system (database, spreadsheet, paper, etc.)? Has anyone developed a system that utilizes Evergreen to help automate such a process? Thanks in advance. CM -- Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library 44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074 740-965-3901 | http://community.lib.oh.us
Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons
Were you thinking more narrowly by author? Yes, and I hadn't thought of the series that Andrea proposed, which I could also see as being popular. CM On 04/29/2014 01:29 PM, Rogan Hamby wrote: We actually discussed that during the Loblolly event a few years ago as something that would be nice for home bound / TBS support and I think would be nice for many patrons. Somewhere the notes from that discussion are still floating around. That was to satisfy some pretty broad needs by qualifier and genre. Were you thinking more narrowly by author? Excuse my brevity, sent from my iPhone -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Chauncey Montgomery montg...@oplin.org mailto:montg...@oplin.org wrote: Our patrons would like us to maintain standing hold requests, similar to standing order plans we use with vendors, where they could be placed on hold for every book published by certain authors. We offered this service for years, but stopped because it was extremely laborious. I was wondering how other libraries approached such requests. If you provide such a service, do you maintain a separate system (database, spreadsheet, paper, etc.)? Has anyone developed a system that utilizes Evergreen to help automate such a process? Thanks in advance. CM -- Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library 44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074 740-965-3901 | http://community.lib.oh.us
