Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme
Hi - I am the IT coordinator in a school in Ireland (by coordinator it doesn't mean that I know anything about IT). Our school intends to implement a school textbook loan scheme in order to reduce the cost of providing school textbooks for parents. I search for information but the only thing I could find went back to 2009. We have between 90-130 students per year group and each student would be receiving approx 15 different textbooks. The students would be entitled to retain the books for 1-3 years depending on their course cycle. Our intention is to barcode each copy of the textbook and scan it as it is issued to each student. We need to be able to generate year group lists/reports for each textbook and lists of which books are outstanding and to which student at the end of each course cycle. Simple question - I hope - is it possible to use Koha in this way? Thanking any responses in advance - I would really appreciate some help -- Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-general-f3047918.html
Simple question - I hope - is it possible to use Koha in this way?
Yes. I think what you describe is typical for library operation except for the duration of the loan, and Koha can handle that just fine. Koha makes it possible for you to create custom reports (see examples here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library) which should be flexible enough for your needs. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries https://www.myacpl.org
Yes. This is fairly standard stuff. Here in India we often have semester long loan of a fixed number of books for students coming from economically backward strata. Books thus lent usually use a custom item type typically called as Book Bank (and therefore with an item type code of BBK). These students are also allowed to borrow other books (same as rest of the students) aside from the BBK item type material. Hope this helps Indranil Das Gupta L2C2 Technologies On Tue 11 Jun, 2019, 4:06 PM doheochai, <doheochai@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi -
I am the IT coordinator in a school in Ireland (by coordinator it doesn't mean that I know anything about IT).
Our school intends to implement a school textbook loan scheme in order to reduce the cost of providing school textbooks for parents. I search for information but the only thing I could find went back to 2009.
We have between 90-130 students per year group and each student would be receiving approx 15 different textbooks. The students would be entitled to retain the books for 1-3 years depending on their course cycle. Our intention is to barcode each copy of the textbook and scan it as it is issued to each student. We need to be able to generate year group lists/reports for each textbook and lists of which books are outstanding and to which student at the end of each course cycle.
Simple question - I hope - is it possible to use Koha in this way?
Thanking any responses in advance - I would really appreciate some help
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