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

[David Schuster]

With 3.0 we are able to add attributes as needed.  So we are actually loading
the entire student schedule into the borrower record so the librarians at
Secondary can choose what class they want to send overdues to or period
etc...

I'm still fuzzy on how LDAP is going to control borrower records.  When you
type in the student ID at CKO wouldn't it have to pull data in order to
track it?  LDAP doesn't have any homeroom/class information or even Grade in
our district so it is pretty much just an authentication piece.

Let me know how your edirectory goes as we also use Novell and I'm not ready
to go down that path right now.  So we are loading ll 54,000 students.  I
hope to setup an automated process of loading borrowers say weekly.


Scott Owen wrote:
> 
> 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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