[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] We have a problem "Profile group"

[Cynthia Williamson]

Agree that there has to be a circulator with permission to register patrons,
in general the ability to do more than just check books in and out.  I've
worked at a small public library where the person at the desk did it all,
incl. reference and readers' advisory - that person needed to be able to
register new patrons.  At Mohawk, we upload most of our student records into
EG from the college registration software but some of our programs do not
have regular start up schedules and students may be on our doorstep a day or
2 before a scheduled upload - in that case our circulators need to be able
to register a student in EG.   In our case, it is the waiving of fines &
overriding of holds situations that we want to be able to move up the food
chain to a circ supervisor.  Two circulator permission profiles work for us
but in other libraries it might be 3 or 4 or more settings that would be
needed....  In other words, many different libraries=many different
workflows.
Regards, Cynthia

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>wrote:

> > In particular this differentiation is common at libraries that have
> > volunteer or work-study circ staff, or where patron membership requires
> > formal criteria be met (like local residence or group affiliation), or
> where
> > account initialization has non-negligible costs (e.g., expensive ID
> cards).
>
> Could make one or more sub-groups of Circulators, one with the
> permission needed for registering patrons.
>
> We should probably give the stock Local Admin group the ability to
> register any type of user.
>
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