[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron Batch Functions

[Tina Ji (Project Sitka)]

Our academic libraries use the unique identifiers from the student  
information system as ident_value. We have only a few academic  
libraries, but some use the same student information system (same  
software, runs separately). We encountered the duplicate ident_value  
issue, and had to pad it.

We also have another working scenario. Some libraries want to sync  
between Evergreen and the student information system on every patron  
load. They send us a complete current students file. We delete all  
student records based on patron profile, such as Student and Postgrad  
Student, and then undelete and update matching records and load  
nonmatching records.

Tina Ji
Support Specialist
BC Libraries Coop


Quoting Martha Driscoll <driscoll at noblenet.org>:

> Rogan,
> Thanks for mentioning the unique identifier problem.  I did intent  
> to associate ident_value with the unique identifier coming from the  
> campus system.  Having non-unique identifiers from multiple campus  
> systems is definitely a possibility.  Our libraries are told to  
> append the org_unit shortname to the university id.  That mostly  
> works well except in cases where a student was entered by hand prior  
> to a data load and the library staff person did not enter the ID or  
> entered it without the shortname appended.  We will see barcode  
> collisions in that case which will halt the load until resolved.
>
> Martha Driscoll
> Systems Manager
> North of Boston Library Exchange
> Danvers, Massachusetts
> www.noblenet.org
>
> On 12/9/2014 9:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
>> I think the syncing between Evergreen and the student information system
>> will be critical part and I think the workflow you mentioned Tim is
>> fairly typical.  I noticed that the wiki write up already mentions an
>> ident_value.  Is that intended to be a unique identifier from the origin
>> student information system?  If so, can we imagine a scenario where we
>> might have multiple origin student systems, such as a consortium with
>> multiple schools?  We might need a table to identify those external
>> sources.


Tina Ji
1-888-848-9250
Support Specialist
BC Libraries Cooperative/Sitka