RA - Requests 2018 03 09

Today's Note taker - David Bottorff

Any questions or thoughts from Wednesday's meeting?

• no questions from previous meeting

Discuss questions that have come up in my work with the developers

• miscellaneous questions working with Marc Johnson (developer)
  • request queue and how it effects fulfillment
    • checking out items - Jessica has unfulfilled request and checks out item, is that enough to fulfill request - David B says yes, Andrea also says yes
    • what about multiple requests?
      • if she is first it fulfills the request
      • if she is not first, modal alert that warns person is not first person in queue, allow supervisor override based on permissions
      • separate modal alert if item is available for pickup with need to override
    • jessica wants to check out an item and none of them are for her, also needs to be able to perform override, message should be 
    • would we want a user to have multiple requests on the same item? David B says no, but Andrea wants to allow multiple requests by staff with permissions for exceptional circumstances, most professors aren't putting in requests anyway
      • don't let them have multiple requests, and no request if checked out to them, but staff can always override if circumstances warrant (permissions based)
  • general philosophy should be staff with sufficient permissions can override almost any aspect of circulation/RA transaction blocks
• one and only one queue, FIFO in v1, eventually more complexity to assign position queue, but not different queues for different request types.

• auto-checkout?
• Rameka-request goes via ILL, checked out before delivery
• ability to support Amazon locker style parking lot
• ability to support UPS style tablet to indicate that item was delivered, where, who did it, datetime stamp
• Andrea unstaffed locations - automatically checked out, faculty routing (Law) 
• auto-checkout for v1, when it gets to the place where it's going to leave from
• modal window that says confirm (print or not print) or back out (permission level based)
• reiterated need for modal not to be cleared by enter key but does need to be cleared by some key so mouse is not needed