[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons

2014-04-29 Thread Chauncey Montgomery
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons

2014-04-29 Thread Rogan Hamby
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons

2014-04-29 Thread Andrea Buntz Neiman
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Standing Hold Requests for Patrons

2014-04-29 Thread Chauncey Montgomery
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