[Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] suggestion module

[Hans Henderson]

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:
>>The suggestion module looks a lot like an interlibrary loan request 
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.

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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.