Library director warns LinkCat checkout history will be truncated to five years; patrons will be notified
Board learned the regional catalog will purge older checkout-history records in December, keeping five years by default; staff will contact affected patrons with instructions to save older history, trustees raised privacy and access concerns.
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The board heard that LinkCat, the regional catalog, will stop storing patrons' full checkout histories and will retain only five years of records starting in December. Director (Staff member) said the change is driven by database performance and default privacy settings and that "by default, their database does not store this again for patron privacy reasons."
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