LIMES

The Library Inventory Management E-System or LIMES.

Problem Statement

The library's ability to effectively track unauthorized departure of physical material is too limited with the current system. The rate of false positives and negatives is too high.
The library is incapable of producing an accurate inventory of physical materials without special funding for additional staff.
The process of discharging library material is labor intensive and there may be significant delays and errors in the process.

Library Business Requirements
I propose separating the business requirements into two categories. Requirements will consist of the absolute minimum functionality acceptable to the library. Preferences will consist of those feature we would like to see. This category should be for those features we do not have now.

Requirements

1. Must work with Aleph ILS
2. Support the following formats:
1. Books
2. Optical Media (e.g. CD/DVD etc.)
   
3. Does not overlap/conflict with other campus systems
4. Support standard protocol
5. Unobtrusive hard to I.D. (students will not easily recognize and remove it.)
   

Preferences

1. Improve inventory process efficiency
2. Improve shelf reading efficiency
3. Support Electronic Devices (e.g. laptops, ebook readers, etc)
4. Improve security over current magnetic
5. Automate check-in

More Print/Copy Issues

The color webprint issues remain unresolved and now we have a new glitch. The color copier devices reads that the charge for color copies is 9¢ per page. That is incorrect and it will charge 50¢ per page. The appropriate people have been informed and we are waiting to hear back. I'll post up when I have more information.

Web Printing is Now Available at UNF, but.....

Web printing is a great tool I've been asking Auxiliary Services to add since about May. It enables patrons to use their own computers to print to our pay-4-print system without any form of configuration or driver installation. The only limitation is the file support which is pretty good but does omit .odt or the open document format. I've made a brief video walk-through so you can take a look.

Now for the down side. Color printing is not working properly. If you send a file through the web printing page to the color queue, you will be charged for a color print but it will come out of one of the monochrome printers. I've submitted a ticket and spoken with Auxiliary Services and others and will give an update once I hear something back

Looks like web printing is working properly now.