* david@lang.hm (david@lang.hm) wrote:
has anyone thought of having iphone/andoid apps to act as bar-code scanners and handling infrastructure tasks (shelving, checkin, etc)
I know I've heard of such apps that take pictures of the bar code, decode it and do various things with it, with the prevalence of such phones and the relative scarcity of dedicated bar-code scanners, it seems like having something like this would be handy.
Hi David Funny you should mention that, yes we have. In fact we are using an android app + koha to circulate conference attendees at Kohacon. Reed from my work has built a fairly rudimentary back working webscan tool that works just fine with Koha's circulation module. Each attendee is going to have a qr code, which maps to an item in the Koha catalogue and we will 'issue' them out to the conference venue at the registration desk. Course there is no reason that if this works well enough you couldn't use this for real. I think Reed is planing to polish it a bit more then put it out there for people to use. Hope this helps Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand