Has anyone been using a portable barcode scanner with the inventory module in Koha? I'm looking for product recommendations, as we'd like to do an inventory of the collection next summer. The cheaper the scanner, the better, of course!
Katie, If you have a laptop in the library and a book cart you can plug any scanner in to the laptop and push the laptop around the library - that's the cheapest ;) no buying anything new. Nicole 2009/12/3 Greer, Katie <kgreer@madonna.edu>:
Has anyone been using a portable barcode scanner with the inventory module in Koha? I’m looking for product recommendations, as we’d like to do an inventory of the collection next summer. The cheaper the scanner, the better, of course!
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A netbook/laptop would be the most efficient way to do this with multiple uses. I have seen lightpens lately that are USB for $34 that would work great for this as they have long cords. I also have an HHP scanner that is bluetooth that I believe was about $350 - with a USB connection except that has an external power supply requirement. I have some old handheld scanners from our legacy system we paid over $1000 for each that I have been able to reprogram to collect barcodes and have successfully uploaded that data and processed it in a test.(Falcon units from PSC) We are not excited about inventory as it only says if the item is there or not and from conversations 3.0 inventory didn't take into account if it was checked out or not from my understanding - http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3123 and based on this bug there are other items that are being fixed as well... I see us sponsoring some development with inventory in the future, but that is on hold right now as we wait for some other developments. David Schuster Plano ISD Nicole Engard-2 wrote:
Katie,
If you have a laptop in the library and a book cart you can plug any scanner in to the laptop and push the laptop around the library - that's the cheapest ;) no buying anything new.
Nicole
2009/12/3 Greer, Katie <kgreer@madonna.edu>:
Has anyone been using a portable barcode scanner with the inventory module in Koha? I’m looking for product recommendations, as we’d like to do an inventory of the collection next summer. The cheaper the scanner, the better, of course!
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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:19:16 -0800 (PST) David Schuster <dschust1@tx.rr.com> wrote:
A netbook/laptop would be the most efficient way to do this with multiple uses. I have seen lightpens lately that are USB for $34 that would work great for this as they have long cords. I also have an HHP scanner that is
David, Do you have any links or vendors for the USB lighpens? Thanks! Jesse McDonnell
Excerpts from Greer, Katie's message of Fri Dec 04 06:27:53 +1300 2009:
Has anyone been using a portable barcode scanner with the inventory module in Koha? I'm looking for product recommendations, as we'd like to do an inventory of the collection next summer. The cheaper the scanner, the better, of course!
Hi Katie 1 Cheap option people have used with success, is a laptop on a cart (assuming you have shelving carts) with just a plain old barcode scanner plugged in. (The usb ones power themselves from the laptop). That works as long as the cord is nice and longish :) Otherwise any portable barcode scanner that can output the scanned barcodes as a text file will work just fine. I don't have any specific recommendations because prices in $ NZ won't help you much :) Chris -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
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