Hi, On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
This feature is motived by privacy concerns. Certain countries do not like certain materials which certain libraries may have. And though the general recommendation is to not catalogue such things publicly, this is counter-productive for patrons in remote locations who would have to waste days to find out there is no useful books pertaining to their linguistic problems. By requiring a log in, authorized patrons can then peruse what is generally not visible to the public, or even to lesser authorized patrons. In this scenario, one branch does not want anyone outside their branch to be able to view their hidden materials, but in another case, one branch is willing to let authorized people outside that particular branch see the hidden materials. All branches want their public materials searchable by the public in general. By customizing patron categories, we can accomplish this by lessening the filtering of the OpacHiddenItems for the various scenarios.
In your situation, what are the consequences if, either via bug or misconfiguration, catalog records meant for authorized users become publicly accessible? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org