cc to koha list : (sounds interesting) Erik Stainsby a écrit:

On January 24, 2003 04:41 am, paul POULAIN wrote:

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3. The ability to add items without a barcode. so that barcodes don't have to be set aside for books that have not yet arrived. (This may already exist but I'm not aware of it. This would be of greater importance if acquisitions was in xhtml and there was a chance that someone would add a book from their cell phone. But others might find it useful.

strange thing indeed. Does someone else have something like this ? Don't you misunderstood what means : "patrons should be able to find biblios without items in the opac, to see that the book will arrive soon ", as i think it's what you ask for ?

My library (on Dynix) for many years, uses a negative-number barcode for items ordered, not received. Patrons are able to place holds, and further staff know not to place redundant orders (we have 800+ staff members) ... Very much prefereable not to have to "fake" the barcode but to just have records with blanks. "Fake" barcodes also have to follow check digit logic, etc. There are a finite number of such - and our collections are approaching 1,000,000 items, with +/- 2M calatogue entries.

Erik

-- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)