https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=32444
Wally DesChamps <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Wally DesChamps <[email protected]> --- Christopher makes valid points. From our (legal, privacy) perspective, we accept that adults cannot have access to other adults' accounts without the account's owner allowing access him/herself; i.e., giving the spouse their login credentials. Divorce and other family drama not where we want to be involved. Further, juveniles are not allowed memberships without an adult guarantor who assumes legal responsibility for that juvenile's library account until that juvenile reaches the age of majority. In our library, guarantors are only flagged when one or more guarantee's account has fines (which for us doesn't occur until the item becomes "lost" (i.e. 21 days) or damaged resulting in a replacement fine. A Guarantor's account is not alerted or flagged due to any other restrictive state of a guarantee's account (i.e., "normal" overdues). However, it would be great to have other "household" (to include other adults) included in a "hey, something is amiss with an account in your household" notice and/or restriction. I understand the baby-steps approach. Our focus in on loss prevention as it relates to the adult who is held legally responsible for their guarantees (who are minors...we do not allow guarantees to be 18+). We have considered completely revamping our membership to only adult accounts and assigning patron categories in item-limit increments. But older guarantees feel empowered to have their own card, and short of us investing in a card generator/printer so that multiple people in the family can have their "own" card (but same card number), this really isn't feasible, nor does it offer the most accurate statistics regarding membership and individual patron usage. If Christopher's approach is the most viable way to eventually provide true (and customizable) "links," I support this bug. That said, though, our desire for true links is to help us enhance our loss prevention efforts and better monitor and inhibit patrons who abuse the system with multiple children's accounts to get around the rules by manipulating the system. Therefore, I am happy with any forward movement in this realm as long as the goal is to make the "guarantor/guarantees" (plural guarantees) all "function" like one "account" [household/organization] with individual "sub-accounts" [guarantor/guarantees]. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
