[Publib] Emulating the Netflix model (was Patron requests limits)

[Rob Amend]

I'm curious about this, too. Our patrons order popular television series on
DVD, but the queue is uneven, so there is a longer wait for the first
volumes than for the last. Patrons tend to receive them in reverse order.

Rob Amend
Reference Librarian
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Sharon Foster <fostersm1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Emulating the Netflix queue in the library is a subject that comes up
> from time to time. Most of us, of course, don't own as many copies of
> anything as Netflix does, so that's the first problem. But the second
> problem is that our ILSs don't offer this model of a requests queue.
> What the patron means to say is "I don't want to read B until I've
> read A." This is especially true in long-running mystery series, for
> example. Has anyone found a way to emulate this model, other than
> manually?
>
> Sharon M. Foster, JD, MLS
> Technology Librarian
> http://firstgentrekkie.blogspot.com/
> "Have you tried switching it off and on again?"
>
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