[Koha-bugs] [Bug 21978] Add middle name field

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21978

--- Comment #6 from Christopher Brannon <cbrannon at cdalibrary.org> ---
Sally, thanks for the input.  This helps.

I've played around with othername and initials, and neither appear in search
results or suggestions, although you can include them for searching.  This
makes distinguishing one patron from the other difficult when this information
doesn't show.  And Sally is right...the brackets around the othername doesn't
make sense if it is a middle name.

Middle names are used in the US for more formal identification (and some people
have multiple middle names), but not commonly used in greetings or business
letters.  So, to have a middle name field that is searchable, and shows in
searches, and properly laid out, but something that can be excluded in
communications and notices, and on screen greetings would be preferred.

Currently we are using othernames for nicknames, like if Mary Jo prefers to be
called MJ.  So, we can't really use that.  And initials are not as visible as
othernames.  We can always adjust things like that, but as stated above, they
are not visible in searches.

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