My .02 (using Koha 2.2.9 on Win32...) -- I agree with the shared catalog....that way students can borrow books from any school in the district. --if they are a school of any size....they probably already have a directory (LDAP/Active Directory/eDirectory)....might be easier to connect to their existing student directory rather that deal with the bother of importing/updating etc etc ect.... I made an initial mistake and imported students in to the Koha database...shouldn't have done that.....over this next summer, I will be removing them and setting up Koha to authenticate users via Novell's eDirectory (LDAP). --We add the home room teacher, and grade level to the student data (we are a small district so it's all we really need) using the sort1 and sort2 entries. -- For custom reports (overdue report that shows home room teacher and grade ) , I added PHP to the server, and use a PHP class to query the MySQL database and present XML formated output, I then use stylesheets to output the XML in browser readable PHP. This pretty much allows me to generate any report imaginable. David Schuster wrote:
From a school perspective our whole purpose in a shared catalog was to borrow and see each others materials. So we turned independant branches OFF. I'm looking forward to the granularity of security options to lock users out of the MARC record!
You may need to add some attributes for schools - homerooms, grade etc. to run overdues. If they use student ID's you can probably load them right into the cardnumber field or create another attribute for barcode.
We're going through the migration process with 67 schools to go live in January! Should be interesting!
David Schuster
Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library wrote:
I was thinking about that. I had to turn that off a while back to get returns to work, but returns seem to be working with IndependantBranches=ON now. Thanks
Paul POULAIN wrote:
Tim McMahon a écrit :
We're checking into the idea of adding the school district to a Koha 3 install. We were thinking of adding each school as a branch. We let Koha assign our patron barcodes and use our own item barcodes. The schools buy their item barcodes and use student numbers. There shouldn't be any overlap in our numbering systems. I'm looking for any tips on settings, importing items and patrons, things to look out for or anything else that would be helpful in a situation like this.
you already have IndependantBranches=ON, haven't you ? Otherwise, you should investigate this option ;-)
-- Tim McMahon Technical Services West Liberty Public Library _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha