[Koha] Borrower Catagories

[Lawrence Bean]

"Marty Jongepier" <bluejaydesign at sympatico.ca> writes:
>Which categories depends on what you do with it

Thereby our question, "what does it do"?
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>The question to ask is; WHY would you want more categories?

exactly
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>If you can't think of any good reasons, don't make any more than you need.

We can't - just seeing if maybe we "missed something"
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>We are running a church library and the only categories we have are
>children
>and adults; children don't have to pay late fines, but their parents do

Good info, thanks! 

>you can add categories per homeroom
>this probably means moving lots of
>students over to another room category when they graduate

This is the kind of "oh, we didn't think about that" info we were looking
for.
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>it is easier to add a category later (if needed) than having too many
>categories
>you are never going to use.
>categories decide which rights you can give to a certain group.
>Patrons are identified by name or card number, not by category.

Also excellent info, very helpful. Thanks for your thorough reply!