General Information Accounts for students and teachers will be added to the patron database for participating libraries automatically. These new Student Access School accounts utilize the school identification number as the patron barcode, are assigned to the School permission group, and do not replace existing library patron cards for students or teachers. Public, charter, and private schools are all welcome to join the program.
Ideally, the students and staff of private and charter schools will have DPI issued IDs, to ensure that there is no duplication within Cardinal. This new process involved the addition of a not insignificant number of new documents to be signed and procedures to be followed before third parties could be integrated with state systems.
This understandably led to some confusion and concern among school systems and member libraries. However, because NC Cardinal is also a state agency operating under these same DIT guidelines, we are exempt from these additional requirements. Therefore nothing has changed for member libraries and school systems with regard to how they implement or take part in the Student Access program.
A document listing NC Cardinal as exempt from this process can be found here , and member libraries may wish to share it with school systems. Student Access Program Checklist Contact the local school system and gauge interest. Either a proxy server or the vendor will include the school ID ranges in their configuration files.
Requirement: Re-barcode colliding conflicting existing patron barcodes. These patron barcodes would be manually re-barcoded or deleted if necessary. Timeline August-September Libraries work with schools, creating files of student and teacher IDs as well as all necessary paperwork. Data ingestion begins. Templates and sample documents were created for libraries to review and customize for their use and are located here :. Data Requirements Student information consists of fields on the patron registration window.
