[Koha] Library Attendance Monitoring

[Jon Knight]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ma. Victoria H. Silva-Manuel wrote:
> Can Koha be used as library attendance monitoring?

Do you mean keep track of users attendance based on book issues, or track 
entry/exit via gates?  The former should be handled by the issues history 
that Koha maintains.

We do the latter but outside of Koha (and Aleph, our previous library 
management system). The data is anonymised but retains department/school 
affiliation and class of user (staff, undergrad, taught postgrad, doctoral 
student, visitor, etc).  The system was designed to ensure that the 
library usage doesn't exceed the fire capacity of the building (at which 
point the entry gates lock until someone leaves - happens occasionally 
during busy exam periods).  The librarians look at it every so often to 
see which departments have been heavy in-person users of the library 
though.  The system is pretty bespoke to our set up though as it imports 
data from our staff & student data feeds to match up card IDs to users and 
then to departments.  You'll need to see what sort of data (if any) your 
library barrier system provides and work from there.

Jon