Chapter 13. Registering New Patrons

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Email field

To register a new patron, select Circulation → Register Patron from the menu bar. The Patron Registration form will display.

Patron registration form

Mandatory fields display in yellow.

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The Show: Required Fields and Show: Suggested Fields links may be used to limit the options on this page.

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When finished entering the necessary information, select Save to save the new patron record or Save & Clone to register a patron with the same address. When Save & Clone is selected, the address information is copied into the resulting patron registration screen. It is linked to the original patron. Address information may only be edited through the original record.

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Tip

  • Requested fields may be configured in the Library Settings Editor (Administration → Local Administration → Library Settings Editor).
  • Statistical categories may be created for information tracked by your library that is not in the default patron record.
  • These may be configured in the Statistical Categories Editor (Administration → Local Administration → Statistical Categories Editor).
  • Staff accounts may also function as patron accounts.
  • You must select a Main (Profile) Permission Group before the Update Expire Date button will work, since the permission group determines the expiration date.

Email field

It’s possible for administrators to set up the email field to allow or disallow multiple email addresses for a single patron (usually separated by a comma). If you’d like to make changes to whether multiple email addresses are allowed here or not, ask your system administrator to change the ui.patron.edit.au.email.regex library setting.