For 3.2, Howard County Library propose adding the ability to create roles, as well as, expand upon the existing koha permissions.
The creation of roles would allow a System Administrator to more easily manage individual staff permissions.
Roles would consist of any number of certain specific permissions
A system administrator would have the ability to view a list of Employees and assign roles to multiple staff members at a time
Several example roles would be
Cataloging-Advanced
View, add, edit, delete authorities
View, add, edit, delete bibs
View, add, edit, delete items
Import bibs and authorities
Merge bibs
Do global authority updates
Cataloging-Basic
In addition to the permissions that currently exist in Koha, and the ones proposed by LibLime, it would be helpful to see the following permissions available.
Under
LibLime's “for hold requests” add the ability to change the priority of existing holds
Acquisitions
Distinguish between running of existing reports vs. creation of new reports
Have separate permissions for view, add, edit, and delete bibs vs. a single permission for all four functions
Have separate permissions for view, add, edit, and delete items vs. a single permission for all four functions
Under ability to edit items, make it possible for the library to specify which item fields can be edited for different levels of staff – all fields for Cataloging staff, Lost and Shelving Location for Public Service staff, etc.
Ability for Circulation to create only fast add bibs and items without access to any other cataloging functions
LibLime plans to add the following granular permissions
view, add, edit, and delete for the following record types
bibs
items
summary/holdings records
authority records
patron records
for circulation transactions, the following distinctions
check out
check in
change due date
use dropbox mode
circulation reports
for patron fines:
for hold requests:
view requests
add requests
edit requests
delete requests
for patron records:
for serials
a permission for each administration page
a permission for access to 'Lists' in the staff interface.
