[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 83, Issue 18

[Nancy Grant]

K-12 School district - 12th graders graduate. No reason to continue to
carry them on the system.

As we do overdues by homeroom teacher, the teacher who no longer has 12
graders, picks up an entering grade. So we have to revise/delete the
homeroom number noted for the leaving 12th graders. Why not just delete
them?

At one point we changed bar code numbers for a group of students - now we
have a "ghosted list" of those students with their earlier numbers. It
interferes with inventory, overdues, etc.

Being able to delete a batch group of students(patrons) makes sense to me.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:00 PM, <
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>    1. Re: Converting large numbers of patron    records to inactive
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> From: "George Tuttle" <gtuttle at prlib.org>
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Converting large numbers of patron
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> It leads to the questions: what is your library's policy and what is the
> reason for marking patrons inactive? I would tend to think the main reason
> would be for accurate statistics -- so your patron count wouldn't be
> inflated with accounts that have expired years ago.
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> George Tuttle
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> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
> Rogan Hamby
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Converting large numbers of patron records
> to inactive
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> I think Jason's is a bit more elegant but if you have a specific need for
> that kind of criteria that can be done a slightly more involved SQL
> statement to run periodically too (daily).
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> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>
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> > Would it be possible to have a set of criteria like:
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> <snip>
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> If not not using expire dates set far in the future, it may be simpler
> to just base it off of expire date.  If the account has been expired
> for over X amount of time, then flag the account inactive.  What do
> you think?  We could do that with a one-line SQL command made to run
> periodically.
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> From: Jason Stephenson <jstephenson at mvlc.org>
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> As a followup, I'd ask what problem are you trying to solve that isn't
> solved by the expiration date of a patron record?
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> That might give more insight to an appropriate solution.
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> Jason Stephenson
> Assistant Director for Technology Services
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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Nancy B. Grant
LMS, NBCT
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