Juvenile profile change

All, starting tomorrow Sept. 1^st, we will be changing the way Juveniles are entered into the system. This has to do with the User Profiles and the internet access tiers. In our former systems the internet access was kept in a field in Dynix and read by SAM. When a juvenile logged in to a library PC SAM directed them to one of three sites depending on their level of internet access. When we first started working with Sirsi we were told that Unicorn does this as well and that we could continue this by using the User Cat 1 for internet access. That is what we did. We created 5 profiles for juveniles, JUVENILE, J-NONRES, J-NRPO, DELMARJ and TEEN. Then we set the User Cat 1 to the appropriate access level as chosen by the parents. The problem with this is it does nothing for i-Bistro and as we are using it a Juvenile with no internet access can get on the databases and perform a Google search just by logging in with their card. So in the spirit of complying with the DE law both in spirit and letter I have made a change to the Juvenile profiles.

I took the five profiles and broke them out by access level. For example the JUVENILE profile is now JUVENILE (for full access), JUVENILET2 (for Tier 2 access), JUVENILET1 (for Tier 1 access), and JUVENILENO (for no internet access). All the other profiles follow this same pattern and I have a complete list below. Now this means that when registering patrons the staff will have to be very careful which profile they choose. Having done that, I can now create a unique environment and i-Bistro instance for the level of access. For example a juvenile with No Internet access will not see the Google search option or any of the links in Magazines & More or Internet & More. A Juvenile with Tier 1 access will see those links in Magazines & More but tailored to their level of access. An Adult or Juvenile with full access will see the i-Bistro we have now with some extra functionality added and the e-books (coming soon). I have tested this on our test server and all works as I had hoped.

Now you may be asking yourselves, what about all the juveniles in the system now? That’s a very good question. The libraries will have to begin using the new profiles of course but I will take care of moving over the others. Kim has offered to help in that endeavor so the libraries will not have to modify their users’ profiles at all.

You are working with unique environments for your OPACS as are the academics with i-Link, so this is just another step along that path. Going forward we will be glad to have these broken out like this even if it means a few extra profiles. I have also modified the patron registration form and you can see the new one on the web site. http://consortium.lib.de.us/ Once the change is made this will also free up the User Cat 1. Off the top of my head I could see us putting the ethnicity in there so that the public libraries do not have to wade through all the academic stuff in User Cat 3. I will also be showing how this works at the next director’s meeting. The new profiles will not appear in WorkFlows until tomorrow and the change to the existing patrons will happen early next week. If you have any questions email me.

Delaware Juvenile Profiles - w/ Tiers
Old Profile	User Cat 1	New Profile
DELMARJ	FULL	DELMARJ
	NONE	DELMARJNO
	TIER-1	DELMARJT1
	TIER-2	DELMARJT2
J-NONRES	FULL	J-NONRES
	NONE	J-NONRESNO
	TIER-1	J-NONREST1
	TIER-2	J-NONREST2
J-NRPO	FULL	J-NRPO
	NONE	J-NOPONO
	TIER-1	J-NOPOT1
	TIER-2	J-NOPOT2
JUVENILE	FULL	JUVENILE
	NONE	JUVENILENO
	TIER-1	JUVENILET1
	TIER-2	JUVENILET2
TEEN	FULL	TEEN
	NONE	TEENNO
	TIER-1	TEENT1
	TIER-2	TEENT2