[Koha] Re: user comments

[Ed Haskell]

Here in the USA we are concerned that keeping this kind of information about 
patrons' reading habits might be subject to examination by outsiders as the 
result of a court order. If we don't keep it we can't reveal it.

At the same time we wish our current system permitted it as a user option. 
For example I would love to have a list of what I've read and I am 
unconcerned about a court looking at the list. Another patron may not feel 
that way.

Ed Haskell
Rochester Public Library Board of Trustees


On Thursday 02 May 2002 22:59, you wrote:
> Hi Ville
>
> I answer your short post first because, well its short :)
>
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:52:38PM +0300, Ville Huhtala said:
> > I forgot one more comment:
> >
> > "reading record" (reading history) raises some privacy issues. This
> > should be configurable option when setting up Koha database.
>
> Im not sure I understand, you dont think the librarians should be able to
> pull up a reading history on a borrower?
>
> I agree you shouldnt make this information available to the other
> borrowers. But surely if the information is all in the database the
> librarians should be allowed to see it?
>
> The reading record is just a list of all the itmes a borrower has borrowed.
> And can be fetched in multiple ways.
>
> Do you think there would be situations in which you'd want to hide a
> members borrowing history from a librarian? In which case you'd probably
> want to hide a lot of other information as well. Is this what you were
> thinking?
>
> Chris