[Evergreen-general] OPAC Request a Library Card Form

[Scott Tracey]

I thought it was under 18?

Scott Tracey

Assistant Director
West Lafayette Public Library
208 West Columbia Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
(765) 743-2261
stracey at wlaf.lib.in.us

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:43 PM Diane Disbro <ddisbro at scenicregional.org>
wrote:

> In our public library district, parents must apply for cards for
> children under age sixteen. Anyone under age sixteen cannot use our online
> registration since we can't verify parental permission (and financial
> responsibility).
>
> Diane Disbro
> Pronouns: she/her
> Circulation Coordinator
> Scenic Regional Library
> 251 Union Plaza Drive
> Union, MO     63084
> (636) 583-0652 ext. 110
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 4:09 PM Patrick, Irene <irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> We've got a question.  We've been using the Request a Library Card form
>> in the Evergreen OPAC.  We have customized it a bit.  I recently received a
>> question about adding the Parent/Guardian field to the registration form.
>> Apparently there is a new project that will be happening in our department,
>> and staff are expecting an influx of registrations for juveniles.  So they
>> wanted to include the Parent/Guardian field on the online registration.
>>
>> I asked our consortium if they could add this field to our form, and
>> after investigating, they reported that they could not do this.  Their
>> explanation:
>> "We tried adding that field to your registration page on the development
>> version of your site, but the change caused a system failure when we tried
>> to create a patron. We looked into the reason why we were unable to add
>> this field and here's what we came up with:
>>
>> When someone goes to register a card through this interface, the results
>> are sent to a database table called "User Stage". This table closely
>> mirrors the "User" table so that when a staff member registers the "User
>> Stage", the data is dumped directly from this table into the "User" table.
>> However, updates to the "User" table don't always make it onto "User
>> Stage", and that is the case with the guardian field. The only way to get
>> this to work properly would be to change the schema of the database to add
>> this piece of data on the "User Stage" table. "
>>
>>
>> This is surprising to us.  We are not a public library, and have had few
>> requests to register juveniles so far.  But since Evergreen was designed
>> for public libraries, we were quite surprised to find that we can't easily
>> add the Parent/Guardian field to the OPAC registration form.
>>
>>
>> I checked Launchpad and it looks like it has already been listed as a bug
>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1897103), although there's
>> not much heat on it yet.  Is this really not a problem for most public
>> libraries?  How do you all deal with the problem?  When registering
>> juveniles, do they all have to use an offline form to register?
>>
>> *Irene Patrick*
>> Library & Information Management Systems Librarian
>> State Library of North Carolina
>> 919.814.6788 | irene.patrick at ncdcr.gov <first.last at ncdcr.gov>
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