[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult

[Holly Brennan]

Changing the ID would be manually, when the juve-now-adult is at the library. When we scan their card the alert would prompt us to ask for THEIR ID and then we’d change the information, as long as the fines are below our threshold (we’re often very generous with kids becoming adults, especially if the fines were accrued when they were very young).

Since we have to manually view and enter the new ID info (Evergreen isn’t THAT good), it doesn’t make much sense to have the script remove parent ID automatically. Actually, that sounds pretty scary! ☺

-Holly

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of McCanna, Terran
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:11 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult

I'm interested in this idea too - have fines entered your discussions? We have encountered patrons who had max fines as a juvenile, but their parents never paid the fines. We wouldn't want to automatically remove the parent's identifying info from the account in these cases since the parent is still responsible for those bad debts. Of course, we could probably just add an extra bit into the script to check for fines before updating all of that info - or maybe partially update, but add different info to the alert.


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
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From: Justin Hopkins 📖
Date:06/10/2015 5:37 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult


Blake is going to put something together, for our own use if nothing else. Hopefully it will be useful for others :)

Justin
On 6/10/15 4:24 PM, Holly Brennan wrote:
Thanks, Justin! Your messages were filtered to my junk – sorry for the late reply!

I can look at the whole database, but only change things I’m familiar with (and this is not one).

-Holly

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Justin Hopkins ??
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:11 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] alert for once juvenile becomes adult

I should clarify that my previous suggestion was based on my recollection that you have access to the database and could set this up.

Justin
On 6/10/15 3:09 PM, Justin Hopkins 📖 wrote:
Holly,

I think the simplest solution would be to run a script on a nightly cron that updated the database as necessary. Flip the Juvenile flag, change their profile, possibly remove the grouping/ident2_value, and add an alert. I thought we might be running something like that ourselves, but either I'm not finding it, or it's just something we'd also talked about doing but never did.

Justin
On 6/10/15 3:00 PM, Holly Brennan wrote:
We’d like to be alerted when a patron who was marked as juvenile (the checkbox based on their birth date) is now over 18. The goal would be to catch those now-adults and change their library card type from Juvenile to Adult, so they are now responsible for their library card rather than their parent. We would also enter their ID information, and remove the parent’s ID (typically their driver’s license).

The staff notification could be just a alert message. We’d like to avoid having to look at an expired account and calculate whether that patron is now an adult, so please no solutions involving math. ☺

We’ve run a report for patrons who have Juvenile accounts but are 18+, and there are hundreds. I’m guessing we’re on our own fixing these ones, but maybe there is a miracle out there for adding the alert to these accounts too?

Thanks!

Holly Brennan
Library Technology Specialist
Homer Public Library, Alaska

hbrennan at cityofhomer-ak.gov<mailto:hbrennan at cityofhomer-ak.gov>
907-235-3180 (main)
907-435-3154 (direct)




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