[Koha] Password to allow loan of books

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Ingrid,

thx for explaining! It's always great to learn new things about 
libraries and how they work in other places.

Maybe file an enhancement request on bugzilla? It might help you to find 
other libraries with a similar requirement:

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/enter_bug.cgi?product=Koha

Katrin

On 26.02.2018 18:33, Ingrid Schiessl wrote:
> Hi, I work with Camila, I'm a librarian! Together we're helping the
> libraries to install, customize and migrate data to Koha.
>
> The problem is, in Brazil it is very popular to ask a password to the
> patrons before the check-out. It is a local practice.
> Specificly in this library (the one we are helping with), they don't have a
> self check-out or chekc-in, hence the only way is to choose the book at the
> shelves and go to the front desk to do the check-out or check-in. So the
> check-out happens at the Staff Interface, and it is made by a librarian.
>
> What we need is a kind of plugin or tool to insert a password before the
> process of check-out is complete. Summarizing, it works like that: you
> choose your books, go to front desk, the person in there puts the barcode
> in the system and, in the end, the patron type a password to conclude your
> check out.
>
>
>
> 2018-02-25 21:11 GMT-03:00 Anthony Mao <maolins at gmail.com>:
>
>>>   "I agree to check this book and return it at the proper date".
>> This statement should be on your library bulletin board or student
>> handbook, or circulation rules, not in the ILS, Koha.
>>
>> 2018-02-26 0:42 GMT+08:00 camilabezerra <crego at hawk.iit.edu>:
>>> Thank you for your response.
>>>
>>> The patrons are not using the staff interface. The librarians when
>> checking
>>> out a book for a patron (at the staff interface) want this patron to
>> confirm
>>> with their password. Something to mean as "I agree to check this book and
>>> return it at the proper date".
>>>
>>> I had a look at the self checkout module and is not quite what my
>> librarians
>>> want.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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