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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">Hi Lori,</font></div>
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<div><a></a><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Koha has the book drop</font></font><a></a><font face="Arial"><font size="3"> feature that Mr. Marron</font></font><a></a><font face="Arial"><font size="3"> described. As far as a duplicate patron goes I think Koha</font></font><a></a><font face="Arial"><font size="3">
tries to compare to what your inputting via the required fields, because on more than one occasion it has asked me if the patron is a duplicate or another record, than it should be a simple matter of just updating. What we do to avoid duplicates is search
by patron last name, and first name, than if we find a matching record we also look at the birthdate</font></font><font face="Arial" size="3">(s). So I guess the short answer is there is no "handy" way of automatically doing this.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">Respectfully,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="3">James Ghiorzi</font></font><a></a></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">Library Assistant II</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">San Benito County Free Library</font></div>
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</font><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre [lori.ayre@galecia.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 23, 2012 2:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Koha list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Koha] backdating, merge patrons and telecirc<br>
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<div>Hi All,
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<div>Is it true that there is no backdating feature in Koha? By this I mean, the ability to check-in items (e.g. book drop stuff) with check-in dates of the previous day (or even several days ago to handle long weekends).</div>
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<div>Is it true there is no handy way to identify duplicate patrons and to merge select patron records into one record?</div>
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<div>What about telecirc...is anyone currently using a telephone-based notification system (such as Asterisk) with Koha?</div>
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