Checking Your Library Account in Drupal

Project Homepage: http://githuhb.com/bricestacey/circ

I developed an application that allows patrons to view their library account in Drupal. The module itself does not actually generate user data. Instead, it relies on other modules to call its hooks to generate user data. In this way, the module can be expanded to support any given system a library implements. At this moment, I have written modules for Voyager and ILLiad.

The patron's library account is broken into three categories: Charged Items, Outstanding Requests, and Fines. I think rather than detailing each feature, a picture is worth a thousand words. More screenshots at the bottom.

Features

The module is designed to be fully customizable and generalize to suit just about any need.

Item Categories

Charged Items (checked out books, received ILL articles)
Outstanding Requests (holds, ILL requests)
Fines

Item Statuses with customizable colors and notes

Courtesy, almost due (customizable interval)
Overdue
Lost (customizable interval)
Recalled
Available (requests only)
Unavailable (requests only)

Item Types

Custom icons
Set custom default icon
Automatically import item types from Voyager to ease installation process

Fully Customizable

Date format
Category headings and descriptive text
Empty text for each category

Simple and Easy to Use

Fully customizable using admin interface
No need to modify PHP or CSS files

Item Renewals

Renewals are possible so long as the implementing system provides a path for renewals. To renew the items in our ILS, I implemented a SIP client written in PHP and provided a path for renewals. More documentation to come.

Project Home

D.O application process was cumbersome and too stringent for the current state of the project. Also, I just started using git and I'm impressed. Linus Torvald won me over in this talk. Thus, I will be hosting the circ project on github. If you are interested, please take a look and provide some feedback.

I would be interested to know if anyone wanted to help participate or support the project. Leave a comment below.