[Koha] Re: user comments

[Chris Cormack]

Hi All

Ive actually just remembered a reason for keeping some historical issues data.
Apart from the statisctics, and reading records reason.
Just that if you anonymise the record at return, you have lost track of the
last person who had the item. So say someone borrows a cdrom, returns it,
later its discovered there is a great big scratch on it.
We now have no idea who last borrowed it. Or a book has pages missing etc.

Or even worse someone returns a dvd case without the dvd in it, the data is
anonymised, now someone has a free dvd.

Having said this, I have absolutely no aversion to anonymising the data. It
certainly appears that it will need to be done for places where there is
fear of litigation or court orders forcing you to reveal that data. 
I just want to make sure we dont lose big chunks of functionality in doing so.

In talking things over with people. Perhaps having a last borrower record
attached to each item then demographically anonymising the issues data on
return might be the way to go?

Chris
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Chris Cormack                                                     Programmer
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