Re: accessing the OPAC Staff View at the reference desk

[Karen Perone <peroneka at oplin dot org>]

We use department cards. Often things are requested for a department's 
use so these cards are used for checking things out to a department for 
longer loan periods than what staff have and for placing holds on 
materials needed by a department for a project.
--Karen Perone, Rodman Public Library

Vilelle, Luke wrote:

> Hello, we just went live with Millennium this week at Virginia Tech, and
> a question has come up regarding accessing the OPAC Staff View at the
> reference desk. Our desk staff has expressed privacy concerns about
> having to log-in to their own personal library information at a public
> desk, when working with a patron, in order to obtain the Staff View.
> Could anybody enlighten me as to how you handle this situation at your
> institution? We have discussed creating generic fake library employee
> patron records for the desks, but there are objections to doing this -
> on the theory that we don't want to get in the habit of creating fake
> patron records (sort of a slippery slope issue) as fix-its.