Thanks, Alex! This is very helpful. How are you hiding patron categories?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:13 AM Alex Hatley <[email protected]> wrote: > Chad, > > > We have a High School - Public Library joint facility and I load student > records every year. To manage the student and facility accounts I just have > a student and facility patron categories. I put expiration dates for the > students at 4 years. That way when they expire I can purge the accounts by > those that are expired. I do hide the student and faculty accounts from the > public library login accounts and hide the public library accounts from the > school login accounts. This helps in that staff will not the student or > faculty account and think it is a duplicate account. I also hide the school > patron categories from public library staff so they do not use them by > mistake and vise versa. It seems to work. > > > Hope this helps. > > > Alex Hatley > > Library Technology Manager > > Corpus Christi Public Libraries > > 805 Comanche > > Corpus Christi TX, 78401 > > PH# 361-826-7045 > > > "This transmission and any attachment(s) may contain confidential > information from this office. This information is solely for use by the > individual named as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, > be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents > of this transmission is prohibited." > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Partners <[email protected]> on behalf of > Chad Roseburg <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:48 PM > *To:* [email protected]; [email protected] > *Subject:* [ByWater Partners] Public library with student accounts > > Are there any public libraries working with schools to create accounts for > use with various digital services, checkout ...etc.? > > Just wondering what your process is and what rights the accounts have. > Currently, we upload the accounts without checkout privileges so they can > just be purged each summer and updated without having to worry about fines > and whatnot. The primary use, from my understanding, is for classes needing > access to research databases and possibly Overdrive. The reasoning is that > they can definitely still get regular accounts and checkout physical items > --- vast majority already have regular accounts but can't remember > their login creds. However, two public schools have indicated that they > would like the accounts to have checkout privileges baked into the > auto-generated accounts. > > Not sure how to maintain the patron database and foresee problems. > > - Koha can't identify duplicate accounts. Not a limitation of Koha, > just that there aren't enough match points to reliably de-dupe accounts. > And even if you could ... > - Student could get enough overdues to restrict access to databases > making class participation difficult. > - Duplicate accounts with fines. > - ??? > > Anyone got this figured out? Am I overthinking this? > > Thank you! > > -- > Chad Roseburg > Assoc. Director / IT > Automation Dept. > North Central Regional Library > -- Chad Roseburg Assoc. Director / IT Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
