The suggestion module looks a lot like an interlibrary loan request
My first post to the list (hope I did it right!), so a quick intro's at the bottom of this message. Somebody's previous comment: form to me, especially the document request. Paul's most recent response:
Is there something I don't understand ? The suggestion module is NOT an ill. It's a feature for a borrower/user that will enable him to "suggest" a library a book to buy.
Me: Does bring up an interesting point though, as the motivation for both is "I want something this library doesn't have". Perhaps if at some point there were an ILL feature, the two functions would be connected, for example: Look it up in the multi-library catalog if found, put in an ILL request if not found, bring up the suggestion interface for the patron Allow the system to make suggestions to Acquisitions for those books that are ILL requested "frequently" (define via parameter setting) Another suggestion for the suggestion module <g> would be to call it something more clear, e.g. patron purchase request module? The generic term "suggestion" initially strikes one as perhaps asking the library patron to make general "customer service" suggestions to the library staff, or even for the Koha user to submit software feature requests to the developers, etc. ============================ First posting introduction: I'm implementing Koha for tracking graded readers and teacher resources (maybe even equipment?) in a private school (Shrewsbury International School) in Bangkok, Thailand. Our "real" library uses Alice, but they didn't want take on responsibility for these tracking these resources, and I wasn't given a budget for more Alice licenses, so - great opportunity for me for me to do a whole lot of extra work for the school! I'm now "just" an ESL / EFL teacher, used to be a computer guy in a previous life - network sysadmin stuff, not unix/linux nor programming unfortunately.