Our academic libraries use the unique identifiers from the student
information system as ident_value. We have only a few academic
libraries, but some use the same student information system (same
software, runs separately). We encountered the duplicate ident_value
issue, and had to pad it.
We also have another working scenario. Some libraries want to sync
between Evergreen and the student information system on every patron
load. They send us a complete current students file. We delete all
student records based on patron profile, such as Student and Postgrad
Student, and then undelete and update matching records and load
nonmatching records.
Tina Ji
Support Specialist
BC Libraries Coop
Quoting Martha Driscoll <[email protected]>:
Rogan,
Thanks for mentioning the unique identifier problem. I did intent
to associate ident_value with the unique identifier coming from the
campus system. Having non-unique identifiers from multiple campus
systems is definitely a possibility. Our libraries are told to
append the org_unit shortname to the university id. That mostly
works well except in cases where a student was entered by hand prior
to a data load and the library staff person did not enter the ID or
entered it without the shortname appended. We will see barcode
collisions in that case which will halt the load until resolved.
Martha Driscoll
Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Massachusetts
www.noblenet.org
On 12/9/2014 9:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
I think the syncing between Evergreen and the student information system
will be critical part and I think the workflow you mentioned Tim is
fairly typical. I noticed that the wiki write up already mentions an
ident_value. Is that intended to be a unique identifier from the origin
student information system? If so, can we imagine a scenario where we
might have multiple origin student systems, such as a consortium with
multiple schools? We might need a table to identify those external
sources.
Tina Ji
1-888-848-9250
Support Specialist
BC Libraries Cooperative/Sitka
