Owen Leonard a écrit :
Does anyone utilize the patrons reading history option for users? If so why, and if not, why not?
We do not. I think we are like many U.S. public libraries in fearing that storing reading history for patrons was a violation of their privacy. I wish we *could* offer reading histories, but the process in Koha would have to be changed if my superiors would sign off on it:
1. It would have to be controlled on a per-patron basis. 2. It would have to be opt-in. Patrons would have to give their consent in order to enable the feature. 3. Patrons should have the ability to remove items from their reading history (and in doing have the transaction anonymized).
I have the code somewhere that does all that. Still poorly tested, but will be in 3.2 (unless an atomic bomb falls on Marseille...) (FYI: in France, it's not a violation of privacy, it's illegal. We have an agency, the "CNIL", that says what is permitted and what is not about nominative datas. Anyone that want to have a file with nominative datas must declare it to CNIL. That can reject the use. For libraries, it's easy, the CNIL has already said : "it's legimitated to keep history for 3 month, and patron entry for 1 year after his subscription. After, datas must be removed". Recently, the CNIL objected the government about a file with all police affairs. CNIL decisions can be bypassed only by a law.) -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08