Seperation of Schools within Koha

[Ed Roche]

Is it possible to force students to only be able to search items that are listed at their level (ex: Elementary, Middle School and High School) without do three separate installations?

 

Edward Roche
Technology Support/Network Admin
Solanco School District
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[Joe Atzberger]

Obviously, not without building a bunch of extra stuff.  You would need to know:

• What "level" is a given title (assume all items of the title are the same)?
• What "level" is a given student?
• How would zebra index the idea of "level"?
  
• How do you know what the user's "level" is when the student isn't logged in?
  

None of these things are built into Koha anywhere.  Even if you get "Accelerated Reader" levels for some of your MARC records, for example, the main failure point will be that most of your books will not be classified as neatly as your question suggests. 

In my opinion, having automated 250+ K-12 libraries, this approach is a waste of time.  It's good to have descriptive data that adds context to a search, but requiring that data for *every* record and forcing limits based on it has been largely unsuccessful, leading to fewer hits for valid searches, in my experience. 
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2009/7/1 Roche III, Edward <edward_roche@...>

Is it possible to force students to only be able to search items that are listed at their level (ex: Elementary, Middle School and High School) without do three separate installations?

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[David Schuster]

I think what he really wants is grouping by location not reading level.

For example search all Elementary schools, or all High School etc..

I believe there is a possible sponsorship item out there that several of us are interested in doing.

Ed - would you have money for a possible co-sponsor opportunity?

Joe Atzberger wrote:

Obviously, not without building a bunch of extra stuff.  You would need to
know:

   - What "level" is a given title (assume all items of the title are the
   same)?
   - What "level" is a given student?
   - How would zebra index the idea of "level"?
   - How do you know what the user's "level" is when the student isn't
   logged in?

None of these things are built into Koha anywhere.  Even if you get
"Accelerated Reader" levels for some of your MARC records, for example, the
main failure point will be that most of your books will not be classified as
neatly as your question suggests.

In my opinion, having automated 250+ K-12 libraries, this approach is a
waste of time.  It's good to have descriptive data that adds context to a
search, but requiring that data for *every* record and forcing limits based
on it has been largely unsuccessful, leading to fewer hits for valid
searches, in my experience.
--
Joe Atzberger
LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions


2009/7/1 Roche III, Edward <[e-mail]>

>  Is it possible to force students to only be able to search items that are
> listed at their level (ex: Elementary, Middle School and High School)
> without do three separate installations?
>

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