Re: Supressing SSN?

[Alma Garcia <almag at mills dot edu>]

Our campus has adopted a policy to not have the SSN in any record other 
then the main student database, in our case Banner.  We deleted the 
contents of the field for all out patron records last year, and the file 
used to load our patrons no longer carries that information.

Alma

David Brennan wrote:

> 'Afternoon-
>
> Campus wide looking at who has access to SSNs; III shows SSN in record view/edit screen. Any way to supress the SSN field so that workstudy desk staff can edit records without seeing it? Nothing obvious in manual or system. Alternatively, *any* fields in patron record that can be supressed- we could move existing SSNs to another field.
> We do not use SSN as primary ID, but as duplicate check, and as a check ID for non-student patrons, of which we have a great many.
>
> Thnx,
>
> David
>
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> David Brennan, MLS
> Electronic Services Librarian
> Clifford E. Barbour Library
> Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
> 616 N. Highland Ave.
> Pittsburgh, PA 15206
> 412-441-3304 x2256
> 412-362-2329 (FAX)
> dbrennan at pts dot edu
> http://www.barbourlibrary.org
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> Ignorance must certainly be bliss or 
> there wouldn't be so many people so 
> resolutely pursuing it.
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Alma García			Library Systems Administrator
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