Automated Best Sellers Club/Favorites Holds
Allow patrons to automate holds for new releases from their favorite authors. Patrons should be able to select their favorite authors to be automatically placed on hold for new releases or acquisitions from that author. Vega discover could also provide statistics on which authors have the most holds, allowing libraries the ability to improve purchasing for popular authors. This would provide an improved solution to a popular program offered by many libraries.
Brandon M. Rowland
shared this idea
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Celia Mulder
commented
We have an in-house version of this for adult fiction authors that requires a fair amount of staff time to maintain and update. We've wanted to expand it to other collections but haven't because of the time restriction. This would be a cool addition and popular with patrons.
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Brandon M. Rowland
commented
We would also consider purchasing if it were a separate module, but it does seem to fit cleanly within the bounds of what an advanced discovery system should be able to do as a core function.
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Lauren Douglass
commented
Note to Innovative staff - We (West Bloomfield Township) have a home brewed version of this that is slowly dying, and we don't have the programmers on staff to keep it alive. It would be super helpful to have this as part of Vega but we recognize that it is a thorny thing to build and I know our director would buy this as a separate module. Just sayin'!