Koha-Library-Management-System/C2/Create-a-SuperLibrarian/English-timed
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00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on how to create a Superlibrarian. |
00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn to- add a Patron category, |
00:11 | create a Patron, |
00:14 | create a Superlibrarian and |
00:17 | give access to a Staff for a particular module. |
00:22 | To record this tutorial, I am using:
Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04 and Koha version 16.05. |
00:34 | To follow this tutorial, learners should have knowledge of Library Science. |
00:40 | To practice this tutorial, you should have Koha installed on your system. |
00:46 | And, You should also have Admin access in Koha. |
00:51 | Please refer to the Koha spoken tutorial series on this website for more details. |
00:58 | Let us begin by learning how to add a Patron category. |
01:03 | Log in to Koha using your database administrator username and password. |
01:11 | Click on Koha Administration. |
01:15 | Under Patrons and circulation, click on Patron categories. |
01:21 | A new page Patron categories opens. |
01:25 | Click on New Category. |
01:28 | A new page, New category opens up, prompting us to fill in some details. |
01:35 | As mentioned before, note that the fields marked in red are mandatory. |
01:41 | I have filled out a few details here. Please do so likewise. |
01:47 | For Category type: from the drop-down list, select Staff. |
01:53 | For Branches limitation: select All Branches. |
01:58 | Next, click on Save at the bottom of the page. |
02:03 | The category name that we entered, appears on the page Patron categories. |
02:09 | In my case, it says Library Staff. |
02:13 | With this, a Patron Category has been created. |
02:17 | Next, we will learn how to add a Patron. |
02:21 | Click on Home at the top left corner. |
02:25 | The Koha homepage opens with a dialog box prompting us to Create a Patron. |
02:32 | It is mandatory to create a Patron. Otherwise in database administrator role, some parts of Koha will not function. |
02:42 | As prompted in the dialog- box, click on Create Patron. |
02:48 | Alternately, you may click on Patrons on the Koha home page. |
02:54 | I will click on Create Patron. |
02:58 | A new page opens. Click on the tab New Patron. |
03:04 | From the drop-down, I will select Library Staff. |
03:09 | A new page- Add patron (Library Staff), opens up. |
03:14 | Now, fill in the details required under the various sections like:
Patron identity, Main address, Contact etc. |
03:26 | I have filled out few details as shown here. |
03:31 | If you don’t have information for any field listed here, then just leave it blank. |
03:38 | Pause the video and fill in all details and then resume the video. |
03:44 | Under the section Library management, locate the field Card Number. |
03:51 | Note that the number 1 is auto-generated by Koha. |
03:56 | Hence, you will see a different number on your Koha interface. |
04:02 | Next is Library. |
04:05 | From the drop-down, I will select Spoken Tutorial Library. |
04:10 | Recall: the Spoken Tutorial Library was created earlier in this series. |
04:17 | If you had given a different name, then choose that name here. |
04:22 | For Category, I will select Library Staff from the drop-down. |
04:27 | Under the section OPAC/Staff login, enter Username and Password. |
04:34 | Each new user should create a new Username and Password. |
04:40 | I will enter the Username as Bella, |
04:43 | Password as library. |
04:46 | Again, enter the same password in Confirm password: field. |
04:52 | Remember this username and password. |
04:56 | This will be used a little later to give rights/permissions to a Staff. |
05:02 | After filling in all the details, go to the top of the page and click on Save. |
05:09 | A new page with the name of the Patron and card number opens. |
05:15 | In this case, as entered earlier, the page has Patron as Ms Bella Tony with card number 1. |
05:24 | To edit the sections, click on the Edit tab, located at the bottom of the respective sections. |
05:32 | Now let us learn how to give permissions to the Patrons. |
05:36 | On the same page, locate the tab More and click on Set Permissions. |
05:44 | A new page with the title Set permissions for Bella Tony, opens up. |
05:51 | Click on the check-box for (superlibrarian) Access to all librarian functions. |
05:58 | Then click on Save at the bottom of the page. |
06:03 | Now, Superlibrarian Ms Bella Tony, having access to all library functions, has been created. |
06:12 | With this superlibrarian account, we can give rights/permissions to a Staff. |
06:19 | So, it’s a very important role in the Koha Library Management System. |
06:25 | Let’s now learn how to give access to a Staff for a particular module. |
06:31 | Log-out from your current session as a Database administrative user. |
06:36 | To do so, go to the top right corner and click on No Library Set. |
06:43 | From the drop-down, click on Log out. |
06:47 | Now, login with the Superlibrarian account. |
06:52 | A Superlibrarian can give rights or permissions to another Staff for accessing any other module. |
07:00 | For example- Cataloging module, Circulation module, |
07:05 | Serial Control', Acquisition etc. |
07:10 | As explained earlier Create a Patron. |
07:14 | Click on the tab New Patron. From the drop-down, select Library Staff. |
07:21 | Select Salutation as Ms. Enter the Surname as Samruddhi. |
07:29 | For Category, select Library Staff from the drop-down. |
07:35 | Do not select any other option. |
07:39 | Under the section OPAC/Staff login, |
07:43 | enter the Username as Samruddhi and Password as patron. |
07:51 | Again, enter the same Password in the Confirm password field. |
07:57 | Remember this username and password as this will be used for further login as a staff. |
08:05 | After filling in all the details, click on Save at the top of the page. |
08:12 | Now, give permissions to this particular Patron. |
08:16 | Go to the tab More and click on Set Permissions. |
08:22 | A new page opens with the title Set permissions for Samruddhi. |
08:28 | This is the name of the Patron we created. |
08:32 | Click on the check-box for (circulate) Check out and check in items.. |
08:38 | Next, click on the check box for (catalogue) Required for staff login. |
08:46 | Also, click on (borrowers) Add, modify and view patron information. |
08:52 | Next, click on the plus sign here. |
08:56 | Click on reserveforothers Place and modify holds for patrons. |
09:03 | Next, come to the tab Edit catalog. |
09:07 | Click on the plus sign. And, click on (editcatalogue) Edit catalog (Modify bibliographic/holdings data). |
09:17 | Next, come to the tab Acquisition . Click on the plus sign. And, click on (acquisition) Acquisition and/or suggestion management. |
09:30 | Next, for the tab tools, click on the plus sign here. |
09:36 | And, click on (batch_upload_patron_images) Upload patron images in a batch or one at a time. |
09:47 | Next, click on (edit_patrons) Perform batch modification of patrons. |
09:55 | Also, select (import_patrons) Import patron data. |
10:01 | Next, also click on Edit authorities. |
10:07 | Next, come to the tab (reports), Allow access to the reports module. |
10:14 | Click on the plus sign and select (execute _reports) Execute SQL reports. |
10:23 | Then click on Save at the bottom of the page. |
10:28 | With this we have given all required rights to a Library Staff with the name Ms. Samruddhi. |
10:37 | Now, log-out from the superlibrarian account. |
10:42 | To do so, go to the top right corner. Click on spoken tutorial library , from the drop-down click on Log out. |
10:54 | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. |
10:58 | Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt to: |
11:03 | add a Patron category,
create a Patron, |
11:08 | create a Superlibrarian,
give access to a Staff for a particular module. |
11:16 | For Assignments - add a new Patron Category- 'Research Scholar’. |
11:23 | Assignment for Superlibrarian: add a new Staff for the following roles- |
11:30 | assign all Cataloging rights,
and add all Acquisition rights. |
11:37 | The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it. |
11:45 | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team: conducts workshops and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
11:56 | Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
12:00 | Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at this link. |
12:12 | This is Bella Tony from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thank you for joining. |