[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Displaying patron information for checked out books

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at yclibrary.net> wrote:
> I hadn't considered special libraries, I was thinking of academic and
> public.  Still, I would want some pretty tight safeguards.  Some consortiums
> allow some local admins to have access to org unit settings to customize
> behavior for their systems (in our case county).  The training and
> preparation of those local admin often varies with the county's resources.
> Most mistakes can be recovered from without too much fuss but the bad
> impression this would leave ... well, it could be downright toxic.  I admit,
> we in SC may be overly sensitive to privacy in some ways since our Dept of
> Revenue got hacked and folks in Eastern Europe got so much of our
> information but yeah, if this went into Evergreen as a patron viewable
> option it would have to be very controllable on a server level in a top down
> way or we would have to seriously re-evaluate a lot and it could end up with
> removing a lot of options from local systems.

Agreed.  This sort of thing may be better done either as a contrib or
as something that requires editing opensrf.xml to enable.

Regards,

Galen
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