Thank you, Lauren! I had thought of the envelopes too (like the hanging clear plastic ones we had "back in the day" for books with audio cassettes). I think that will be the most obvious/easy option. I'm guessing your equipment and weirdly shaped items each have their own specific barcode? They told me specifically that they wanted a sheet with one barcode for "dinosaurs," and one barcode for "sea creatures," and whatnot. But I don't see how that could work with Koha... You can't check out the same barcode to multiple patrons at the same time, and when you check in, how does Koha know from which patron file to remove the item? Anyway! Thanks for your ideas! I'll let them know about the clear plastic envelopes as an option. Caroline On 2023-03-15 15:58, Lauren Denny wrote:
HI Caroline,
I have two different situations that are related. Magazines: I didn't care which magazine went home with a student just that a magazine went home with them. I bought large clear envelopes that held the magazine that students wanted. The envelope had the barcode on it and was used to check out the magazine. Koha held records for each envelope: Magazine 1, Magazine 2, Magazine 3, etc. Equipment and weirdly shaped items: I had a sheet with barcodes for a variety of 'things' that were checked out but I didn't want to put barcodes on them. I just pulled out the sheet and scanned the corresponding barcode to the item being checked out.
Hope this helps. Lauren
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 3:49 PM Caroline Cyr La Rose <caroline.cyr-la-rose@inlibro.com> wrote:
Hello everyone!
I need to pick the collective brain about a question I received from one of our libraries.
They are a toy/game library. For games and books, they circulate items normally. However, they have some toys in many copies and they don't need to or want to have a specific barcode for each copy of a particular toy. They gave me the example of dinosaur figurines. They have 60+ dinosaur figurines, but they don't need to know that *this exact* dinosaur figurine went home with this patron. They just need to know that *a* dinosaur figurine went home with this patron. They want to avoid having barcodes for each dinosaur.
Right now, they manage this in a spreadsheet, but would like to manage it in Koha with the rest of their inventory.
Do any of you have a similar situation? If so how do you manage those items?
Thank you so much!
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