[Koha] Hiding specific item types

[Linda Culberson]

We wanted something similar for an item type that we don't want to 
appear in the public OPAC/  The best I could come up with is having a 
category under "LOST"  which will make the item not appear in the public 
OPAC.  It is not  ideal, because the items aren't really "Lost"  at 
all.  It is an ugly work-around, but it seems to work
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've been reading this list for 9 months now and learned a lot here.
> I'm in the process of managing the migration to Koha for a media
> centre/ library at a university in Berlin/ Germany. The facility's
> specific purpose is to provide material (print, audio, video,
> software) for learners of foreign languages.
>
> I have several problems to solve and I hope you can help me a
> little. It may be useful to say that I'm more of a tech-person in
> this context, not a librarian. The first problem I would like to
> address is the following:
>
> Among other things we have an inventory of old TV recordings. We are
> obliged by our legal department to not show OPAC entries of these to
> the general public -- meaning our (old) OPAC is restricted to the
> university network, making us invisible to everybody outside of that
> network.
>
> It would be great to find a way around this with Koha. Is it
> possible to show some specific items in the OPAC only
> a) to people of specific patron groups or
> b) to people of a specific IP range
> while invisible to others (and while all other items are visible to
> everyone)?
>
> I've read about shadowing, but I understand it hides items from the
> OPAC completely, showing them only in the staff client. That is not
> what we need, people coming to our facility are supposed to find
> everything in the OPAC. Is there some other way, like hiding a
> complete category of items?
>
> Thank you for reading all this,
>
> Mirko
>    

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Linda Culberson			lculber at mdah.state.ms.us
Archives and Records Services Division
Ms. Dept. of Archives&  History
P. O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205-0571
Telephone:  601/576-6873
Facsimile:  601/576-6824