E-Mail Overdue Notices

[Roy Lewis]

Have any of the Library Automation Vendors created or suggested an option
for E-Mail notification for overdue's or soon to be overdues?  Just think
with all of the people that are getting Internet access they could be
automatically sent a pending overdue notice the day before a book becomes
overdue.  This would get the books back in before the library spent the
money for postage.  Then a follow up E-Mail sent the day it becomes
overdue.  With the advent of all of these automatic E-Mail mailers it does
not seem like it would be a very difficult program to modify.

This would be very easy to impliment in University Libraries where all
students have an E-Mail account.

Roy Lewis
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Roy Lewis rcl at onramp.net
Automation Consultant, Northeast Texas Library System
972-205-2571 FAX=972-205-2767
http://rampages.onramp.net/~rcl/rcl.htm
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