Standalone Kiosk

It is theoriatically possible. You could create a user with a role of volunteer and give out the password (or just leave the computer on and the user logged in all of the time). The security would totally suck and there would be all sorts possible mistakes possible, but if you were willing to risk it…

The plugin was not really designed to be used this way. I would think that properly training a few volunteers and organize some sort of reasonable ‘hours’. Do you really have people showing up at your church at 2am Thursday morning wanting to borrow a book? Or are you thinking a Las Vagas style 24/7 drive-through church? ??

i believe i am in the same situation as the original poster. I am looking to use this plugin in the context of a small church library.

I don’t know if you take feature requests, but maybe if there would be a way to add username and password fields to each Patron profile (or maybe a unique ID number), then a user could login from the front-end, and perhaps scan a book with a barcode scanner, and check it out or in him/herself. This would be great for small church libraries that are not always staffed. If a Patron would only be able to check in/check out books for himself (and not for any Patron in the list, like a ‘Volunteer’ could), that would be more secure.

(I think you might actually have a good number of people using your plugin for church libraries. After all, a public library or school probably would be using high-end software, or subscription services. This plugin is perfect for churches that are trying to create an online catalog on a budget. And incidentally, the one Youtube video I found on this plugin was using it in the context of a church.)

In any case, you’ve created a great thing here. I appreciate everything it can do.