Yes, we do use the offline circ for our Bookmobile. <br>We're generally happy with it but there are a few things to be careful of. Mostly related to making sure the data file that you upload to Koha is correct. If the patron barcodes are wrong checkouts get assigned to a null patron. When this happens you have to fix it with a SQL query replacing the null patron with a "real" patron. Also sometimes the barcode scanner misses a few digits on a item barcode so we look for that in the file before we upload.<br>
<br>The other issue is that you need to be a superlibrarian to upload the files. This has caused some issues since I would not normally give library staff those premissions. Of the close to 200 staff at GCPL only 4 of us had superlibrarian permissions before we started using the offline circ program. I've had to add those permissions to 3 more staff just so they can do the uploads.<br>
<br clear="all">Susan Bennett<br>ILS System Administrator<br>Geauga County Public Library<br>440 286-6811 x 125<br>440 286-7419 FAX<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Kyle Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kyle.m.hall@gmail.com">kyle.m.hall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Geauga County uses the offline circ for their bookmobile.<br>
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Kyle<br>
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Information Technology<br>
Crawford County Federated Library System ( <a href="http://www.ccfls.org" target="_blank">http://www.ccfls.org</a> )<br>
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2009/5/15 Latha Srinivasan <<a href="mailto:pentupoutu@yahoo.com">pentupoutu@yahoo.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi,<br>
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> Do any one of you have experience with Offline module of Koha? Are they any<br>
> issues to look out for?<br>
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> Also, I am planning to use it for the mobile library - If anyone of you have<br>
> used KOha for similar purposes, could you please share your experiences?<br>
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> Thanks<br>
> Latha<br>
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