I thought it was under 18? Scott Tracey
Assistant Director West Lafayette Public Library 208 West Columbia Street West Lafayette, IN 47906 (765) 743-2261 [email protected] On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:43 PM Diane Disbro <[email protected]> wrote: > In our public library district, parents must apply for cards for > children under age sixteen. Anyone under age sixteen cannot use our online > registration since we can't verify parental permission (and financial > responsibility). > > Diane Disbro > Pronouns: she/her > Circulation Coordinator > Scenic Regional Library > 251 Union Plaza Drive > Union, MO 63084 > (636) 583-0652 ext. 110 > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 4:09 PM Patrick, Irene <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> We've got a question. We've been using the Request a Library Card form >> in the Evergreen OPAC. We have customized it a bit. I recently received a >> question about adding the Parent/Guardian field to the registration form. >> Apparently there is a new project that will be happening in our department, >> and staff are expecting an influx of registrations for juveniles. So they >> wanted to include the Parent/Guardian field on the online registration. >> >> I asked our consortium if they could add this field to our form, and >> after investigating, they reported that they could not do this. Their >> explanation: >> "We tried adding that field to your registration page on the development >> version of your site, but the change caused a system failure when we tried >> to create a patron. We looked into the reason why we were unable to add >> this field and here's what we came up with: >> >> When someone goes to register a card through this interface, the results >> are sent to a database table called "User Stage". This table closely >> mirrors the "User" table so that when a staff member registers the "User >> Stage", the data is dumped directly from this table into the "User" table. >> However, updates to the "User" table don't always make it onto "User >> Stage", and that is the case with the guardian field. The only way to get >> this to work properly would be to change the schema of the database to add >> this piece of data on the "User Stage" table. " >> >> >> This is surprising to us. We are not a public library, and have had few >> requests to register juveniles so far. But since Evergreen was designed >> for public libraries, we were quite surprised to find that we can't easily >> add the Parent/Guardian field to the OPAC registration form. >> >> >> I checked Launchpad and it looks like it has already been listed as a bug >> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1897103), although there's >> not much heat on it yet. Is this really not a problem for most public >> libraries? How do you all deal with the problem? When registering >> juveniles, do they all have to use an offline form to register? >> >> *Irene Patrick* >> Library & Information Management Systems Librarian >> State Library of North Carolina >> 919.814.6788 | [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> >> NC Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources >> 109 East Jones Street | 4640 Mail Service Center >> Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4600 >> >> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ncghl/> Twitter >> <https://twitter.com/ForEverythingNC> Instagram >> <https://www.instagram.com/foreverythingnc/> YouTube >> <https://www.youtube.com/user/statelibrarync/> Website >> <https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/> >> >> <https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/> >> >> >> * <https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/> * >> >> *Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North >> Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.* >> >> #StayStrongNC >> Learn more @ nc.gov/covid19 >> >> And don’t forget your Ws! Wear. Wait. Wash. >> * WEAR* a face covering. >> * WAIT* 6 feet apart from other people. >> * WASH* your hands often. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Evergreen-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >> > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general >
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