-There’s
a question listed in the first name row as whether we want
to collect a preferred name/nickname. Preferred
name/nickname is not included in the doc.
-Honorifics
are listed under Titles and the Title Values sheet. Listed
as “Include in FOLIO”
-Suffixes
are not listed but I seem to remember that coming up but
couldn’t say when or in what context
Duke would consider the lack of
these fields to be a block for go live. Whether that
means the solution is adding a field to the user
module or using custom fields, I don’t know. Is there
a timeline yet for this feature’s development?
There’s an ongoing question too
about whether custom fields would offer the
functionality needed. Eg, I don’t want to just display
a preferred name in the user app, I want it to be used
in notices when it’s populated, maybe kept in certain
audit trails, use it in our discovery layer, etc.
If this discussion concerns the short
term, please ignore this message.
If this discussion concerns the long
term, and if only some institutions want some of the
mentioned fields, this seems like an excellent candidate
for the "custom fields" feature, where each institution
could potentially adapt the fields that exist and/or
appear, and how they behave (see an introduction to it
here:
https://discuss.folio.org/t/custom-fields-ux-iteration-1/1849). The
feature is not yet in development, and as such is only a
UX concept at present time. However, I just wanted to make
you all aware of it so that you might keep it in mind for
any discussions where applicable.
Please let me know if you have any
questions, advice or ideas about the notion of custom
fields.
I think we should at least touch base about it.
Are they missing from the record entirely? Those
might be fields that are legal to leave blank, and
they might not be populating by default.
-mcb
Maura Byrne
Integrated Library Systems
University of Chicago Library
A colleague in the Resource Access SIG reports
that a few important user name fields may be
missing:
preferredFirstName, Middle Name, Honorific, and
Suffix.
At Cornell, preferred names are really important,
which may be true for other Unis as well. Middle
Name is helpful, especially for many non-English
names, and we use "Jr, III" etc. in Suffix.
Honorific isn't so important to us, but it is for
other institutions.
Has anyone else noticed that and, if so, should we
discuss it at the next meeting?
Thanks,
Phil
Philip Robinson
Director of Library Systems
Cornell University
(607) 255-0098 www.library.cornell.edu
