Instant Message your ILS
Ever thought it would be kind of cool to be able to IM your ILS and find out when the items you have out are due back? Or do a quick search of the catalogue? Well I did, so here’s what we have so far.
You can login, find out what you have out, and search by title or author. It still needs to be expanding a bit, currently its only working with AIM (jabber is in progress), and there is a lot more it could potentially do. Perhaps renewal, placing reserves, and of course expanding the search. The API is all there in Koha so its just a matter of writing the layer between the IM protocol and Koha.
If people have any suggestions they are willingly accepted.
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
[...] Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:13:00 GMT I finally got my Koha IM bot mostly working, and did a post here http://blogs.liblime.com/developers/2007/06/22/instant-message-your-ils/ . If you want to have a play let me know, and ill start the bot up for you. I’m in the process of [...]
June 27th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Can you make it proactive to remind when things are due? So, when it sees my buddy name it would check my account and then send my items due today? I know you have a login in the example, but maybe something you could configure in your library user account to allow this type of access from the IM client? I have no idea how “stored credentials” would work in this situation, but just a thought. I assume that the code is already there for users to receive e-mails when things are due, but have not seen that mentioned in previous posts.
June 27th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Yep the code is there to send sms, emails etc.
What we would want to do is allow the user to specify their IM name, in their profile, then we could message them if we see them, and they need a warning something is due.
Much the same as we store their email address now.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Along with expanding the search, would there be a way to limit results? I can think of situations where a patron would want to confine the search to a particular branch or department. Also, could the items issued results act as a link the same way the items searched results do?
February 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
No reason why not, just have to come up with a nice easy syntax for the search. And yep anything can be a link.
I hope to do some more work on the bot in the near future.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hi!
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What would you recommend?
Thanks,
Werutz