[Koha-devel] Test Request

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Mark Tompsett <mtompset at 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
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