Library Attendance Monitoring
Hi. Can Koha be used as library attendance monitoring? Thank you. -- Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel Registered Librarian, 3892
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel wrote:
Can Koha be used as library attendance monitoring?
Do you mean keep track of users attendance based on book issues, or track entry/exit via gates? The former should be handled by the issues history that Koha maintains. We do the latter but outside of Koha (and Aleph, our previous library management system). The data is anonymised but retains department/school affiliation and class of user (staff, undergrad, taught postgrad, doctoral student, visitor, etc). The system was designed to ensure that the library usage doesn't exceed the fire capacity of the building (at which point the entry gates lock until someone leaves - happens occasionally during busy exam periods). The librarians look at it every so often to see which departments have been heavy in-person users of the library though. The system is pretty bespoke to our set up though as it imports data from our staff & student data feeds to match up card IDs to users and then to departments. You'll need to see what sort of data (if any) your library barrier system provides and work from there. Jon
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel wrote:
Can Koha be used as library attendance monitoring?
Do you mean keep track of users attendance based on book issues, or track entry/exit via gates? The former should be handled by the issues history that Koha maintains.
We do the latter but outside of Koha (and Aleph, our previous library management system). The data is anonymised but retains department/school affiliation and class of user (staff, undergrad, taught postgrad, doctoral student, visitor, etc). The system was designed to ensure that the library usage doesn't exceed the fire capacity of the building (at which point the entry gates lock until someone leaves - happens occasionally during busy exam periods). The librarians look at it every so often to see which departments have been heavy in-person users of the library though. The system is pretty bespoke to our set up though as it imports data from our staff & student data feeds to match up card IDs to users and then to departments. You'll need to see what sort of data (if any) your library barrier system provides and work from there.
Jon
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