Re: [IUG] Alternative IDs implementation

[Sue Whitehead <sue dot whitehead at biola dot edu>]

Hi, Aimee,

In your system, is the Alternate ID indexed in the same index as the regular
ID, or a separate index, or not indexed at all?

We also have been thinking about adding the Alternate ID, and would
appreciate any advice about the indexing question.

Sincerely,

Sue Whitehead
Systems Librarian
Biola University Library


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, IUG INNOPAC List <
innopac at innovativeusers dot org> wrote:

>  Emily - we're a public, so you may want to do something different from
> us, but we just activated the field in Modify Patron info and in our
> Patron Self Registration form and advertised the availability.  It's
> optional for our customers use.  We already have 7,000 customers with
> alternate ids and it's only been available since February.  It's so much
> easier than remembering the library card number that people are happy to
> have it.
>
> One note if you use the item slip/wrapper template for anything.  The
> system thinks of alt ID and alias as the same thing, so if you are
> printing customer name on anything it may change to the alt ID
> unexpectedly.  That's what happened to our self service hold slips.  We
> were able to use a different field in the wrapper template and get back
> to displaying the real last name.
>
> -- Aimee
>
> Aimee Fifarek
> Scottsdale Public Library
> 480-312-7060
>
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> On Behalf Of Bullitt, Emily
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:31 PM
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> Subject: [IUG] Alternative IDs implementation
>
> Hello,
>
>
> We are planning to implement alternate IDs for our WebPac.  For those of
> you that have implemented them, did you create a new patron load profile
> to include the new field, or did you just let it get added to individual
> records as patrons create their own alternate IDs?  Have you run up
> against problems if you didn't include it in the patron load profile?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
> Emily
>
>
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> Emily Bullitt
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> Manager, Information Desks
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> Horn Library, Babson College
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Biola University

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