[45] in Information Retrieval
Re: [djtowner@Athena.MIT.EDU: how about being able to access the library's circ system?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ackerman@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 7 18:12:06 1992
From: ackerman@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: gyoung@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: elibdev@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 07 Jan 92 13:36:12 -0500.
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 18:11:06 EST
Well, perhaps this suggests a few other valuable programs for the
Athena/Library:
1. It would be very valuable (at least to me) to know what
books I have checked out and when they are due.
I have to track this manually now.
2. It would be useful to have some way to remind myself
via email of books that are coming due.
3. The Library could send overdue and recall notices via
email - presuming, of course, that I requested
this service. My email is much more dependable
than my US mail.
I think that 2 and 3 satisfy the security and privacy issues since I
would be requesting these services, and they could be done in batch
once a day. 3 would probaby save some money.
I don't know all of the problems and constraints inherent in these
suggestions. They are only suggestions of things that would be
valuable to me as a library customer.
Ack
