Member Area / member login

[tzeumer]

The member login es a very good idea. This is just a collection of ideas what else might be useful

1. Split the Member Name field into first name and last name
2. Password
   a) Automatically create a password. Libraries in my area often use "last name-birth year" as default password
   b) Allow (and prompt) users to change their default password; probably mail it to them (together with the other registration data) after a new registration.
3. Don't use the email as login. I know cases where people either didn't have an email or refused to tell them to the library. The Member ID is not the most user friendly login, but it is unique and thus save. Users got to know it (or have an membership card) anyway for the circulation.
4. Allow users to extend their loans in their opac account themselves. This might count against the reborrow limit or an additional extending limit could be introduced. (This is how many libraries in my area handle it - you can extend up to three times yourself, than you must return your copies, but you can "reborrow" them immediately. In either case only unless there are no reservations, of course.).
5. Allow users to reserve loaned books for themselves.