Reserve in advance - Book Club Kits or Library of Things
Add an option based on material type that allows the customer to reserve an item for a certain time frame. For example, if the item type is book club kit, they can reserve a title in June for a meeting in October. For greater flexibility, we'd like to control how far in advance they can book the item based on material type. We'd be interested in using this for book club kits, laptops, and other types of kits that we have or might add.
Idea Value
As more libraries are adding non-traditional materials such as tools, cake pans, and sewing machines, the need for this functionality is increasing. There currently isn't a great system on the market, and if this functionality is added to Polaris, it would allow us to manage more of our collections with one software system instead of relying on third parties.
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Erik Burton commented
We currently use Kit Keeper for this, but having something native in Polaris would be way nicer.
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Celia Mulder commented
We have tested probably every product available that offers a reservation system for our book club kits and things to go collection and none work for what we need. It would be ideal if Polaris had this functionality so we don't have to continue to use a clunky third party system.