<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Galen Charlton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com">gmc@esilibrary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Owen Leonard wrote:<br>
> Are you talking about circulation? If by "swiping" you mean<br>
> "scanning," then of course that should work. That's what we do every<br>
> day. In circulation I don't find that entering "643" pulls up "1643"<br>
> at all.<br>
<br>
</div>Two different searches are being discussed:<br>
<br>
[1] 'search patrons' - uses a "like" on the patron barcode, so a search of "123" will pull up barcode 123, 6123, 12345, etc. This applies whether the barcode was type or scanned.<br></blockquote>
</div><br>Perhaps a simple radio button setup with "exact" and "like" options in the patron search interface would allow both types of searches without the inconvenience of having to select one *or* the other via a syspref.<br>
<br>Kind Regards,<br>Chris<br>