Not sure how helpful this is, but we ended up building an online form
that allows us to capture the cosigner information:
https://www.grpl.org/get-a-card/
One of the nice features of the form is that it allows a co-signer to
register for multiple juvenile cards at once. It also allows users to
upload identity and address documents so that we can then issue and mail
the cards.
Jen
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On 10/8/2020 7:33 PM, Laura Burk wrote:
We use 13. I think it's based more on the rules of internet marketing
to kids under 13 (who aren't even supposed to have email addresses).
We let 13+ get cards for themselves in person as well.
(Public library here)
Laura
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:56 PM Scott Tracey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I thought it was under 18?
Scott Tracey
Assistant Director
West Lafayette Public Library
208 West Columbia Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
(765) 743-2261
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:43 PM Diane Disbro
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
In our public library district, parents must apply for cards
for children under age sixteen. Anyone under age sixteen
cannot use our online registration since we can't verify
parental permission (and financial responsibility).
Diane Disbro
Pronouns: she/her
Circulation Coordinator
Scenic Regional Library
251 Union Plaza Drive
Union, MO 63084
(636) 583-0652 ext. 110
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 4:09 PM Patrick, Irene
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We've got a question. We've been using the Request a
Library Card form in the Evergreen OPAC. We have
customized it a bit. I recently received a question about
adding the Parent/Guardian field to the registration
form. Apparently there is a new project that will be
happening in our department, and staff are expecting an
influx of registrations for juveniles. So they wanted to
include the Parent/Guardian field on the online registration.
I asked our consortium if they could add this field to our
form, and after investigating, they reported that they
could not do this. Their explanation:
"We tried adding that field to your registration page on
the development version of your site, but the change
caused a system failure when we tried to create a patron.
We looked into the reason why we were unable to add this
field and here's what we came up with:
When someone goes to register a card through this
interface, the results are sent to a database table called
"User Stage". This table closely mirrors the "User" table
so that when a staff member registers the "User Stage",
the data is dumped directly from this table into the
"User" table. However, updates to the "User" table don't
always make it onto "User Stage", and that is the case
with the guardian field. The only way to get this to work
properly would be to change the schema of the database to
add this piece of data on the "User Stage" table. "
This is surprising to us. We are not a public library,
and have had few requests to register juveniles so far.
But since Evergreen was designed for public libraries, we
were quite surprised to find that we can't easily add the
Parent/Guardian field to the OPAC registration form.
I checked Launchpad and it looks like it has already been
listed as a bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1897103),
although there's not much heat on it yet. Is this really
not a problem for most public libraries? How do you all
deal with the problem? When registering juveniles, do
they all have to use an offline form to register?
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