https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35972
--- Comment #43 from Mirjam Vantieghem <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mirjam Vantieghem from comment #42) > (In reply to David Cook from comment #41) > > (In reply to Mirjam Vantieghem from comment #40) > > > (In reply to David Cook from comment #39) > > > > What's a "Research table"? > > > > > > See original description (now hidden): > > > "Our library has research tables and lets patrons (mainly master students > > > working on their thesis) keep items for a longer period on these tables. > > > In > > > order for both library staff and patrons to be able to quickly track down > > > items, we are using the Course reserves module to set a certain research > > > table as temporary location for a certain item." > > > > Interesting. Why expose this information on the OPAC? > > We don't expose the patron's name, only the table number and the items that > are on this table*, in order for also other patrons (mostly other students > in our case) to be able to see where these books are, so they don't loose > time looking for them on the shelves. In the past we 'checked out' these > books to the table, but then other patrons could not see where these books > were and they were thus not available to others. Most students work at least > one year on their master's thesis, so that's a long time for these books to > be unavailable. Patrons are not allowed to take books from a research table, > but they are allowed to consult them at the table. > > *in most cases we also display the research topic, so if a certain book is > missing that deals with this topic, library staff and patrons know where to > look for it first. And students usually find it interesting to see the > topics others are working on. Extra reason I forgot to mention: in our case the registered user of the research table needs to inform us when they add to/remove books from the table so that library staff can update it in the system. The user has no access to the Staff client (and shouldn't have), so the only way for them to know what is already registered to their table is by checking the research table page on the OPAC. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
