[Koha] Best practice for registering pupils in a school library?

[Darla Grediagin]

I register students with planned graduation date.  This makes it easy to move the student out 
the year of graduation.

Darla

Darla Grediagin
District Librarian
Bering Strait School District
Unalakleet, Alaska
Web Address : http://bssdonline.org/course/view.php?id=51
Blog: http://aklibrarian1.edublogs.org/
OPAC:  http://opac.bssd.org:8282


On 10/5/11 11:11 AM, Magnus Enger wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> Here comes a non-technical question!
>
> I have some customers who are school libraries, and I'm wonder what is
> the best way to register pupils as patrons.
>
> I'm thinking sometimes it will be interesting to be able to group them
> by the year they are in (1. year, 2. year etc), and sometimes it will
> be interesting to group them by the class they are in (in Norway these
> will typically be called 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc).
>
> I'm also thinking that during summer it will be useful to batch delete
> all the pupils who left at the end of the spring semester.
>
> And of course, every summer all the pupils who have not left will have
> to be shifted up one class. So maybe it's better to avoid the classes
> alltogether and use the year they enrolled for something?
>
> One of the libraries in question has created patron categories based
> on class, so they have patron types called 1A, 1B etc - I'm not sure
> what they plan to do when everyone gets shifted up one class at the
> end of the spring semester... ;-)
>
> So again: How are y'all registering pupils in Koha?
>
> Best regards,
> Magnus Enger
> libriotech.no
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