Re: [IUG] Feedback on purging inactive patrons

[Brent Searle <bsearle at langara dot bc dot ca>]

Mary:

I believe that enabling wwwoption UPDATECIRC will solve your problem. 
Once enabled, users' last circ activity date is updated whenever they 
login. See IGR Page # 106891 (Release 2009B Rev. 2).

Also, if your library had any of a number of Innovative's patron APIs 
and web services, they also automatically update patrons' last circ 
activity dates when used. See also IGR Page # 105467.

- Brent

On 2011-02-01 3:11 PM, Mary Cohen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to see what other III libraries do regarding the purging of
> inactive patrons.  In the past, we remove after 3 years of no activity and
> no fines (or less than $5 in fines).  Now we are finding that some of our
> patrons only use our internet, online resources (such as the magazine index)
> and/or our e-book service.  Because there is no link with III, we run the
> risk of purging a patron who does use our services, they just don't check
> out materials.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mary

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