[Koha] Adding schools as branches to a public library Koha install

[Scott Owen]

My .02
(using Koha 2.2.9 on Win32...)

-- I agree with the shared catalog....that way students can borrow books 
from any school in the district.

--if they are a  school of any size....they probably already have a 
directory (LDAP/Active Directory/eDirectory)....might be easier to 
connect to their existing student directory rather that deal with the 
bother of importing/updating etc etc ect....
I made an initial mistake and imported students in to the Koha 
database...shouldn't have done that.....over this next summer, I will be 
removing them and setting up Koha to authenticate users via Novell's 
eDirectory (LDAP).

--We add the home room teacher, and grade level to the student data (we 
are a small district so it's all we really need) using the sort1 and 
sort2 entries. 

-- For custom reports (overdue report that shows home room teacher and 
grade ) , I added PHP to the server, and use a PHP class to query the 
MySQL database and present XML formated output, I then use stylesheets 
to output the XML in browser readable PHP. This pretty much allows me to 
generate any report imaginable.






David Schuster wrote:
> From a school perspective our whole purpose in a shared catalog was to borrow
> and see each others materials.  So we turned independant branches OFF.  I'm
> looking forward to the granularity of security options to lock users out of
> the MARC record!
>
> You may need to add some attributes for schools - homerooms, grade etc. to
> run overdues.  If they use student ID's you can probably load them right
> into the cardnumber field or create another attribute for barcode.
>
> We're going through the migration process with 67 schools to go live in
> January!  Should be interesting!
>
> David Schuster
>
> Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library wrote:
>   
>> I was thinking about that.  I had to turn that off a while back to get 
>> returns to work, but returns seem to be working with 
>> IndependantBranches=ON now.  Thanks
>>
>> Paul POULAIN wrote:
>>     
>>> Tim McMahon a écrit :
>>>       
>>>> We're checking into the idea of adding the school district to a Koha 3 
>>>> install.  We were thinking of adding each school as a branch.  We let 
>>>> Koha assign our patron barcodes and use our own item barcodes.  The 
>>>> schools buy their item barcodes and use student numbers.  There 
>>>> shouldn't be any overlap in our numbering systems.  I'm looking for any 
>>>> tips on settings, importing items and patrons, things to look out for or 
>>>> anything else that would be helpful in a situation like this.
>>>>         
>>> you already have IndependantBranches=ON, haven't you ? Otherwise, you 
>>> should investigate this option ;-)
>>>
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Tim McMahon
>> Technical Services
>> West Liberty Public Library
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