Thanks, Alex! This is very helpful. How are you hiding patron categories? On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:13 AM Alex Hatley <AlexH@cctexas.com> wrote:

Chad,

We have a High School - Public Library joint facility and I load student records every year. To manage the student and facility accounts I just have a student and facility patron categories. I put expiration dates for the students at 4 years. That way when they expire I can purge the accounts by those that are expired. I do hide the student and faculty accounts from the public library login accounts and hide the public library accounts from the school login accounts. This helps in that staff will not the student or faculty account and think it is a duplicate account. I also hide the school patron categories from public library staff so they do not use them by mistake and vise versa. It seems to work.

Hope this helps.

Alex Hatley

Library Technology Manager

Corpus Christi Public Libraries

805 Comanche

Corpus Christi TX, 78401

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------------------------------ *From:* Partners <partners-bounces@bywatersolutions.com> on behalf of Chad Roseburg <croseburg@ncrl.org> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:48 PM *To:* koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; partners@lists.bywatersolutions.com *Subject:* [ByWater Partners] Public library with student accounts

Are there any public libraries working with schools to create accounts for use with various digital services, checkout ...etc.?

Just wondering what your process is and what rights the accounts have. Currently, we upload the accounts without checkout privileges so they can just be purged each summer and updated without having to worry about fines and whatnot. The primary use, from my understanding, is for classes needing access to research databases and possibly Overdrive. The reasoning is that they can definitely still get regular accounts and checkout physical items --- vast majority already have regular accounts but can't remember their login creds. However, two public schools have indicated that they would like the accounts to have checkout privileges baked into the auto-generated accounts.

Not sure how to maintain the patron database and foresee problems.

- Koha can't identify duplicate accounts. Not a limitation of Koha, just that there aren't enough match points to reliably de-dupe accounts. And even if you could ... - Student could get enough overdues to restrict access to databases making class participation difficult. - Duplicate accounts with fines. - ???

Anyone got this figured out? Am I overthinking this?

Thank you!

-- Chad Roseburg Assoc. Director / IT Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library

-- Chad Roseburg Assoc. Director / IT Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library