E-Mail Overdue Notices

[Skip Booth]

Roy Lewis wrote:

> 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
> *********
> 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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DRA has had this as an option for well over a year and Anne Arundel
County's been making good use of it. It notifies patrons of reserves as
well and along with our dectalk telephone notification system has saved
as a bundle in postage.
--
Skip Booth
Information System Support Manager
Anne Arundel County Public Library
5 Harry S Truman Parkway
Annapolis, MD 21401