[FOLIO-870] Integrate Equipment Loan Form (ELF) with Check-Out app. Created: 29/Sep/17 Updated: 18/Jan/22 |
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| Status: | Open |
| Project: | FOLIO |
| Components: | None |
| Affects versions: | None |
| Fix versions: | None |
| Type: | Task | Priority: | P3 |
| Reporter: | Peter Murray | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Unresolved | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | 2 hours, 45 minutes | ||
| Original estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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High-level ticket for tracking the integration of Illinois' Equipment Loan Form with FOLIO for their EBSCO Innovation Grant work. |
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| Comment by Peter Murray [ 29/Sep/17 ] |
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From email thread. On Sep 29, 2017, 3:49 PM -0400, Hahn, Jim <jimhahn@illinois.edu>, wrote:
On Sep 29, 2017, 5:05 PM -0400, Peter Murray <peter@indexdata.com>, wrote:
Jakub Skoczen and Cate Boerema – can you help me figure out how to help Illinois start to map this out? |
| Comment by Jakub Skoczen [ 02/Oct/17 ] |
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Peter Murray can you provide more details? How/when should ELF get displayed? |
| Comment by Peter Murray [ 03/Oct/17 ] |
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In their current workflow, the ELF would be displayed after the item barcode was scanned as part of the loan-out process. In Montreal we talked about using the emerging workflow mechanism for this, but there were objections about how we didn't want workflows to throw pop-ups as a potential for bad UX design down the line. The compromised talked about at the time was to put an unobtrusive message at the bottom of the screen with a link to the ELF app. The thought was that since the operator would be checking out a piece of equipment they would know to find the link to the ELF app and that pop-up dialog box wasn't needed. Jim Hahn and Nathaniel Ryckman – feel free to chime in on the ticket! |
| Comment by Jim Hahn [ 05/Oct/17 ] |
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We have been using an ELF in the UIUC Undergraduate Library for almost 2 years now. It creates special agreement loan forms for circulating, renewing, and discharging technology items in a busy media commons. Our observation is definitely in line with the use case described, the circulation staff are aware that the items they are scanning are a special type of loan. Therefore, I think that the unobtrusive message at the bottom of the screen would work nicely for special types of loans. We are loaning everything from cameras to laptops to projectors and presentation equipment ( https://www.library.illinois.edu/mc/lt/ ) . Recently we extended the functionality to be able to loan out the keys to an audio recording studio ( https://www.library.illinois.edu/mc/studios/ ). I do have a question about the FOLIO circulation app: is there going to be functionality that allows booking an item of equipment in advance? In my Voyager experience, these have been processed under "short loans" where circulation staff can basically reserve a camera or other technology in advance for a patron so that the user can pick it up in the future. It has been the case that the technology loans get quite a few advance bookings on them that we have a special web app (separate from the ELF app) to show when loanable technologies are booked in the future, which helps desk staff see available slots for advance bookings. This was done to address shortcomings in how the ILS we have displayed short-loans at copy levels not the broader equipment level.
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| Comment by Peter Murray [ 20/Oct/17 ] |
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Thanks for posting this, Jim – and I apologize for the long delay in getting some comments back to you. Knowing that a simple notification message on the screen will be enough certainly helps with the integration at this stage.
To the best of my knowledge, there has not been a discussion of being able to book an item in advance. It does seem closely related to the holds functionality, so I'm going to loop Cate Boerema and Tania Fersenheim (product owners) into the conversation as well as Darcy Branchini (user experience designer). Andrea Loigman is the convener of the Resource Access SIG, so I'm adding her as well. |
| Comment by Peter Murray [ 08/Apr/18 ] |
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Posting the Interim report from Univ of Illinois |
| Comment by Nathaniel Ryckman [ 17/Apr/18 ] |
ResourcesBelow are links to the repositories we have uploaded along with demo videos that demo and explain each piece of software that we have uploaded. Demos Videoself.mov ELF RepositoriesWaitlist Repositoriesmod-waitlist FOLIO Config Repositories |
| Comment by Andrew Nagy [ 18/Jan/22 ] |
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Cheryl Malmborg Is this something that could be looked at by the Circulation group to determine if this is still feasible or is something that is no longer valid? Its a feature that was developed many years ago and never was implemented into the code base. I think this has gone into a black hole because there is no assignee. |