According to the message, all current employees and students are loaded.
So, what's the point in moving from the SSN as the employee ID to the
ZPid if SSN is still essentially _the_ id?
While other schools are desperately trying to get away from using the
SSN for the student number, luckily, MSU doesn't...but we might as well
if systems such as MAGIC are allowed to use SSN as the 'reconciling'
ID...
The library getting SSNs in order to reconcile multiple records for
people who may or may not borrow books is a very weak reason to need
anyone's SSN. Perhaps AIS or ACNS could perform this reconciliation for
the library, linking ZPids to APids.
Kristin Schuette
Information Technologist IV/S
Office of the Registrar
-----Original Message-----
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Anyone know if SSN information was in this database for staff employees
who
have never used the Magic library system ?
Matt Jackson
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Akers
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Isn't the reason we got employee ID numbers to avoid having to use SS
numbers in interactions with MSU?
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The Magic system is pre-loaded with customer information so that new
members
of the MSU community don't have to go through a lengthy process the
first
time they check out a book. The SSN is used to reconcile multiple
records
for the same person when that person has multiple MSU affiliations.
/rich
Cheryl
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Microcomputer Support - Microbiology and Molecular Genetics 2228C
Biomedical
Physical Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824
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