Evergreen Self-Check Round Table

Moderators: Terran McCanna and Bill Erickson

Questions

1. What issues need to be fixed?
2. What improvements should be made to make it more widely utilized?

Current Bug Reports

• 1371752 - Selfcheck override events list
• 1485052 - Patron barcode format
• 1528681 - Workstation registration library order
• 1528685 - Pay fines doesn’t work with Stripe
• 1563906 - Print progress close button too small
• 1621990 - Fine payment queuing allows duplicate payments
• 1660410 - Workstation registration allows system level
• 1794185 - Self-check and OPAC use same login mechanism

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Current Bug Reports

• 1815968 - Audio alerts do not sound
• 1816162 - Pop-ups are cleared by scanning another barcode
• 1847130 - Receipt options should be touch-screen friendly

Current Wish List

• 1271680 - Support LDAP Authentication
• 1512171 - Renew items without items present
• 1544686 - Support barcode completion
• 1557564 - Inform user if wrong type of barcode was scanned
• 1560601 - Keep cursor focus in scan box
• 1706758 - Support custom CSS file
• 1765554 - Block renewals if item was just checked out
• 1809263 - Library setting to control whether alerts block checkouts or not

Current Wish List

• 1810446 - Display login name/barcode and password (if required) boxes at the same time
• 1813193 - Make logout button more prominent
• 1817641 - Add locale picker
• 1840773 - Angularize self-check interface
• 1847827 - Use preferred name when available

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How can we make it better?

• Angularize it
• Touch-screen friendly
• Multi-language friendly
• Make accessible
• high contrast option
• Rethink interface layout
• login screen
• holds broken up status

• Integrate same fine payment options that OPAC has
• Font sizes too small
• RFID (os-level application)
• Possibility of using Hatch to integrate with third party products?

How can we make it better?

• Option to suppress print settings if no receipt printer
• Option to suppress print option if email exists
• Option to disable functions they don’t want (such as limit it to checkout only)
• Touchless interface? (Scan barcodes)

• Some libraries want option of not using keyboard at all
• Enter password on touchscreen like on ATM
• Option to hide email notification option if they don’t have email
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Hemlock App

• Be able to use camera to scan barcodes

Access to Message Center

• Maybe even pop up new messages when they log in

Security

• Ability to integrate with third party products to handle item security (tattletape, etc.)
• Note: some gates may check item status (via RFID / SIP) to make sure it’s checked out? (too slow to be effective)

Some new browser dev’ts (APIs) may allow browsers to talk to USB ports, so may be able to avoid Hatch

RFID scanning device may be able to scan item & disable security at the same time

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Ability to add Google analytics? Could add hooks into selfcheck (and OPAC) to do better tracking

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Next Steps

Thank you!

1. Review all open bugs
2. Create launchpad �tickets for any bugs �that have not yet been entered
3. Develop a specifications document incorporating these ideas
4. Open up to community feedback and seek funding

tmccanna@georgialibraries.org