[Koha] Adding child to staff patron record

[Liz Rea]

Holly,
We had this same problem. We got around it by leaving "staff" accounts for true "staff" accounts -- library staff were given accounts with Adult category, with patron category of "Library Associate." By doing it this way we were able to have the best of both worlds: library staff could have guaranteed children, and also have special rules based on their special patron category. As it turns out, the "staff" designation in Koha really doesn't mean a whole lot -- except that you can't attach children to it.

We may be unique in how we handle staff accounts: we have 36 libraries, and we give one "low permission" staff account (CITY_CIRCULATION), one "medium permission" account (CITY_CATALOGER), and one "high permission" account (CITY_ADMINISTRATOR) to each library. None of these accounts have superlibrarian permissions -- we save those for ourselves. ;) At no time does a staff member's personal account get used as the account they would use to circulate books in the system. We have found that this makes it a lot easier to keep track of comings and goings of staff. If a library loses a staff member, we change the password for the account that staff member was using, rather than track down their personal account.

I hope this helps you,

Liz Rea
lrea at nekls.org

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On Jul 1, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Holly Hancock wrote:

> We've been live with Koha since January and just discovered today that  
> there is no "Add Child" button on patrons with Catagory Type: Staff.
> I haven't been able to find a bug fix for this so maybe I need to tell  
> my staff they can't have children!
> What am I missing?
> We are running 3.02.06 on Debian Lenny.
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> Holly Hancock
> Library Director
> Bridgton Public Library
> 207-647-2472
> hollyh at bridgton.lib.me.us
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