[Evergreen-general] OPAC Request a Library Card Form

[Laura Burk]

We use 13. I think it's based more on the rules of internet marketing to
kids under 13 (who aren't even supposed to have email addresses). We let
13+ get cards for themselves in person as well.
(Public library here)

Laura

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:56 PM Scott Tracey <stracey at wlaf.lib.in.us> wrote:

> 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
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