[Koha-devel] Test Request

[Mark Tompsett]

Greetings,

With respect to the feature addition in bug 10589.

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.

The scenario given by Paul P. also applies.
GPML,
Mark Tompsett
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