[Koha] Library Attendance Monitoring

Alvaro Cornejo cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 06:38:57 NZDT 2018


Hi

You might want to see this recent plugin for koha. Not sure is what you
want.

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_plugins#Plugins


Regards,

Alvaro

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2018-03-21 12:07 GMT-05:00 Jon Knight <J.P.Knight at lboro.ac.uk>:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel wrote:
>
>> Can Koha be used as library attendance monitoring?
>>
>
> Do you mean keep track of users attendance based on book issues, or track
> entry/exit via gates?  The former should be handled by the issues history
> that Koha maintains.
>
> We do the latter but outside of Koha (and Aleph, our previous library
> management system). The data is anonymised but retains department/school
> affiliation and class of user (staff, undergrad, taught postgrad, doctoral
> student, visitor, etc).  The system was designed to ensure that the library
> usage doesn't exceed the fire capacity of the building (at which point the
> entry gates lock until someone leaves - happens occasionally during busy
> exam periods).  The librarians look at it every so often to see which
> departments have been heavy in-person users of the library though.  The
> system is pretty bespoke to our set up though as it imports data from our
> staff & student data feeds to match up card IDs to users and then to
> departments.  You'll need to see what sort of data (if any) your library
> barrier system provides and work from there.
>
> Jon
>
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