[Koha] [ByWater Partners] Public library with student accounts

[Chad Roseburg]

Thanks, Alex! This is very helpful. How are you hiding patron categories?



On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:13 AM Alex Hatley <AlexH at cctexas.com> wrote:

> Chad,
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> 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
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> Corpus Christi Public Libraries
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> *From:* Partners <partners-bounces at bywatersolutions.com> on behalf of
> Chad Roseburg <croseburg at ncrl.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:48 PM
> *To:* koha at lists.katipo.co.nz; partners at 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
>


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