E-Mail Overdue Notices

[Peter Murray]

This isn't really a Worldwide Web technology question, but...

We have been sending e-mail notices to our patrons using our INNOPAC system
for over a year now.  It greatly reduces postage, paper, and staff time
processing the paper notices.  We have e-mail addresses for all students,
faculty, and staff that come through in our patron loads from the
administrative systems.  E-mail me privately if you want more information.


Peter

PS, to the Web4Libbers:  The topic of an e-mail list for general library
technology came up earlier this week in another conversation.  Is there a
list were questions like this that are *not* related to web technologies in
libraries are posted?  Please reply privately...

--On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 6:17 AM -0700 "Roy Lewis" <rcl at OnRamp.NET> 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.



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Peter Murray, Library Systems Manager                      pem at po.cwru.edu
Digital Media Services                   http://www.cwru.edu/home/pem.html
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