Booking: Booking integration in the Patron Record

[Christine Burns]

Wishlist Request

Better integration of Booking in the patron record in the staff client, using a tab instead of under ‘Other’.

Use Case = Martha Dill, a circulation assistant, usually works the circulation desk. When a professor comes to checkout a book, he also asks the status of one of his reservations. Martha, who doesn’t often use Booking, can’t find the information the professor is asking for.

Instead, she would like a another tab between Holds and Bills, called Booking, that takes you to a screen that allows you to view, create, cancel, pickup and return reservations for that patron. In addition, a count underneath the tab shows her the unfilled/filled reservations (similar to the holds display). As well, there is a count of reservations in the left hand summary under Holds that says Booking and a total count and a filled count.

[Beth Willis (willis-a)]

This would be very helpful!