Hi Again Marcus, I forgot to address the piece about deleting the student records in batches. That's an issue that makes the staff at our school libraries twitch since they feel a strong need to make the records for graduated students go away as soon as possible. We sponsored development to allow for searching on portions of a patron file, creating a list of records based on criteria (like the presence of '2009' in the sort1 field) and then doing something to the list of patron records in a batch.
Unfortunately for us, we sponsored this development when we were customers of LibLime and the resulting code is not very viable for use with Koha. Now that we have switched away from LibLime and are using the community-coded and sponsored version of Koha we will almost definitely look at a similar development project. Nothing like paying for something twice! If anyone is interested in partnering with us on a development project for maintaining patron records in batches, please get in touch with me. We'd love to share! Nora ________________________ Nora Blake MassCat Manager Massachusetts Library System P.O. Box 609 South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241 508-357-2121 x123 866-627-7228 Email: [email protected] AIM: noraatmls -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Magnus Enger Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:12 PM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Best practice for registering pupils in a school library? Dear Community, Here comes a non-technical question! I have some customers who are school libraries, and I'm wonder what is the best way to register pupils as patrons. I'm thinking sometimes it will be interesting to be able to group them by the year they are in (1. year, 2. year etc), and sometimes it will be interesting to group them by the class they are in (in Norway these will typically be called 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc). I'm also thinking that during summer it will be useful to batch delete all the pupils who left at the end of the spring semester. And of course, every summer all the pupils who have not left will have to be shifted up one class. So maybe it's better to avoid the classes alltogether and use the year they enrolled for something? One of the libraries in question has created patron categories based on class, so they have patron types called 1A, 1B etc - I'm not sure what they plan to do when everyone gets shifted up one class at the end of the spring semester... ;-) So again: How are y'all registering pupils in Koha? Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
