I have a couple of questions. 1. What is the goal for having all family members on one account? We serve a very transient population and a common question we get with people moving into the area is do we do family accounts. With grouping yes we do but once we explain how it works with a family coupled with our checkout limit (30 items per card) most family groups opt for the one card or two depending if both parents bring the children to the library. Due to the transient nature of our service area, you must have your card with you to checkout this goes for juveniles as well. If the parents opt for one card and grandma or a babysitter brings the juveniles to the library then they must have their parents card inorder to checkout materials. This would alleviate these concerns almost entirely. Parents would only have one account to manage and juveniles could still get a library card.
2. Does Grouping not give you what you need? Grouping does work and im not knocking it in any way. For us this solution would work best as our policies, fee, and checkout limits are the same across the board, adult or juvenile. > Drawbacks: > They will share checkout and fine limits. As above this is not an issue for our library as our policies are applied equally regardless of age. We do have libraries in our consortium that do have different policies based on age. and I understand that this is not a solution for those types of libraries. > There will be no privacy. This is something I have been thinking about. Privacy is a big issue, especially for me. In practice, juveniles have no expectation of real privacy as the parent/guardian is ultimately responsible for all items checkout. The issue of privacy only really comes to the forefront once you get into the preadolescent/teen age groups. because our policies apply to all equally, we take a very hands off approach and leave all decisions about accounts to the parent/guardian. I do not want us getting into a situation of basically saying "get your teen their own card so you can't see what they are checking out". Grouping works fine for us and the way I laid out solves one problem but creates another. If anyone has any additional thoughts about the privacy issue I would be happy to hear them. Jordan On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:57 AM o1bigtenor via Evergreen-general < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:38 AM Diane Disbro via Evergreen-general < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, Jordan - >> >> This is clever! >> >> I have a couple of questions. >> 1. What is the goal for having all family members on one account? >> 2. Does Grouping not give you what you need? >> >> Drawbacks: >> They will share checkout and fine limits. >> There will be no privacy. >> >> > Wondering if an advantage would be for 'billing' (fees for membership)? > > Regards > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.evergreen-ils.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evergreen-general > -- If you need further assistance, please contact the library at 940-365-9162 or send a reply email. Thank You, The Library Staff 226 Countryside Dr., Aubrey, TX 76227
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