[Koha] Change in card number

[King, Fred]

You can change the card number and it doesn't affect anything. When I set up Koha for our library five years ago, I uploaded a list of all the employees, using their employee ID number as their card number. About a week or two later the hospital introduced a system-wide ID scheme and everybody got a new employee number. When someone comes to check out a book, if they have the old number we change it. Or maybe we don't. Right now our card numbers are a mixture of old IDs, new IDs, and sometimes we use phone numbers if a rotating resident needs a book and she doesn't have an ID number.

Obviously, our small library can be a lot less formal than most, but the gist of it is that Koha assigns internally-calculated numbers to patrons and the library card number can be anything you want it to be, including changed as you need it.

BTW, I set up Koha 3.12. I believe it was the very afternoon of the day we went live that 3.14 came out. Oh well...

Fred King
Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
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Hi Friends,
As our university assigning enrollment numbers after 3 months of actual
admission. Meanwhile, we have to create patron card number either temporary
or using other scheme. Can I change card number later ?

Is it effect history of old issue return record ?

Pls guide me.


Rajesh Bhatt
Librarian,
GRIMS Vapi
India
WhatsApp #+919824925609
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