FCLMAH@NERVM.BITNET (Maggie Hogue 904-392-9020) (02/07/90)
One of our libraries assigns cards to "lieutenant" borrowers for faculty by simply adding a new ID subrecord for each borrower. That allows all responsibility to lie with the professor, since s/he actually has the items. But - I don't believe that's what you're looking for. Perhaps you should give each individual borrower a card, and use the organization ID field to identify the corporation. Organization ID is indexed, so the individual borrowers would be locatable by the corporation name or code. (The org. IDs must be unique, like social security numbers, but you could add a personal name or initials suffix to a base code, e.g., IBMJones for Jim Jones at IBM.) The patron group table must have the flag set that allows organization ID to be used, but no other table changes are needed.