ASPeN - Explaining PERSON vs POSITION

ASPeN - Explaining PERSON vs POSITION

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The difference between PERSON and POSITION is important.  Many people don’t quite update it properly.  An example would be a circulation desk librarian.  That POSITION might have an email of MTCircDesk@MySuperCoolLibrary.org.  But if Sally Sue works that POSITION, the PERSON email might be Sally.Sue@LibrariansRock.net.  You might think that isn’t a big deal but when Sally Sue retires and a new PERSON assumes the existing POSITION you don’t want emails going to the wrong address.  I used email as an example but it is all the contact info.  The reason I mention this is I have had people update one and not the other and they wonder why ASPeN isn’t showing the updates.

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