Re: Supressing SSN?

[Alma Garcia <almag at mills dot edu>]

That must be an option.  Our III system is a little over three years old 
and we display only the due date of items that are checked out.  From 
the OPAC's staff view we only see the patron number.

Alma

Karen Rice wrote:

> During training for Millennium Cataloging last week, we learned that the
> borrower's NAME displays on a record in cataloging mode when that item
> is checked out.  That seemed like an erosion of privacy to some of us. 
>
> Karen Rice
> Western Washington University Libraries
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brennan [mailto:dbrennan at pts dot edu] 
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
> Subject: Supressing SSN?
>
>
> '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
>
> ============================
> 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
> ============================
> Ignorance must certainly be bliss or 
> there wouldn't be so many people so 
> resolutely pursuing it.
> ============================
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