E-Mail Overdue Notices

[Shaken Angel]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, 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.
> 

We're doing something akin to this here at Miami University Libraries and
thus far the patron reaction has been overwhelmingly favorable.

-- john f., miami u library systems