Rogan,
Thanks for mentioning the unique identifier problem. I did intent to
associate ident_value with the unique identifier coming from the campus
system. Having non-unique identifiers from multiple campus systems is
definitely a possibility. Our libraries are told to append the org_unit
shortname to the university id. That mostly works well except in cases
where a student was entered by hand prior to a data load and the library
staff person did not enter the ID or entered it without the shortname
appended. We will see barcode collisions in that case which will halt
the load until resolved.
Martha Driscoll
Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
Danvers, Massachusetts
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On 12/9/2014 9:12 AM, Rogan Hamby wrote:
I think the syncing between Evergreen and the student information system
will be critical part and I think the workflow you mentioned Tim is
fairly typical. I noticed that the wiki write up already mentions an
ident_value. Is that intended to be a unique identifier from the origin
student information system? If so, can we imagine a scenario where we
might have multiple origin student systems, such as a consortium with
multiple schools? We might need a table to identify those external
sources.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Tim Spindler <tjspind...@gmail.com
<mailto:tjspind...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I don't know about others but at C/W MARS the academics provide a
file and all the data comes from the student information system
including mailing addresses. We often get one address that is a
campus address and one that is a home address.
I think Martha has it covered but we have some institutions who
would want address information overlaid and others who might want
all address in the record because of the way students can move around.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Galen Charlton <g...@esilibrary.com
<mailto:g...@esilibrary.com>> wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Martha Driscoll
<drisc...@noblenet.org <mailto:drisc...@noblenet.org>> wrote:
> I put together a list on the Evergreen for Academic wiki of
the functions
> that a batch patron interface should have. This list is
based my experience
> loading patron files for our 10 academic consortium members.
Please let me
> know what issues you encounter and what functionality should
be included on
> the wiki.
>
>
http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen_for_academics:batch_patron_functions
Thanks for putting this together, Martha, it looks like a great
start.
One set of use cases that I'm particularly curious about are how
addresses should be handled. For example, does it suffice for
most of
the libraries in the IG to have the batch import handle one address
per patron? Do any of you get mailing address data from any place
other than the student and staff information systems? Are any
of you
in a position to not have to worry about keeping student mailing
addresses in the ILS at all?
Regards,
Galen
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