Here in the USA we are concerned that keeping this kind of information about patrons' reading habits might be subject to examination by outsiders as the result of a court order. If we don't keep it we can't reveal it. At the same time we wish our current system permitted it as a user option. For example I would love to have a list of what I've read and I am unconcerned about a court looking at the list. Another patron may not feel that way. Ed Haskell Rochester Public Library Board of Trustees On Thursday 02 May 2002 22:59, you wrote:
Hi Ville
I answer your short post first because, well its short :)
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:52:38PM +0300, Ville Huhtala said:
I forgot one more comment:
"reading record" (reading history) raises some privacy issues. This should be configurable option when setting up Koha database.
Im not sure I understand, you dont think the librarians should be able to pull up a reading history on a borrower?
I agree you shouldnt make this information available to the other borrowers. But surely if the information is all in the database the librarians should be allowed to see it?
The reading record is just a list of all the itmes a borrower has borrowed. And can be fetched in multiple ways.
Do you think there would be situations in which you'd want to hide a members borrowing history from a librarian? In which case you'd probably want to hide a lot of other information as well. Is this what you were thinking?
Chris