[Koha] 3m self-checkout machines and Koha

[LAURENT Henri-Damien]

Le 09/03/2011 03:53, Liz Rea a écrit :
> 2011/3/8 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>:
>> Hi James,
>> I don't think it matters which 3M model of self check you use because they
>> all rely on SIP. The 3M and Koha implementations of SIP are all worked out
>> and there are several libraries using their self-checks.  Not e-commerce,
>> just the self-check.
>> FYI, Tech-Logic and ITG also have Koha libraries using their self-check
>> machines, also via SIP.
>> Lori
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM, James, Mason <mason at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi Folks
>>>
>>> are any libraries out there on KohaLand using 3M selfcheckout machines
>>>
>>> if so... do they behave OK, and what specific models work well
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers, Mason
>>> --
>>> KohaAloha, NZ
> 
> NEKLS is using 3M self check machines. We have really only one minor
> problem, mostly they work well.
> 
> Problems we see (and this may be totally a matter of library preference):
> items with holds aren't allowed to check out if the patron has the
> book in their hand (i.e. they got a book off of the shelf that some
> off-site patron had placed a hold on before a librarian got to it to
> pick it). That's really all I've got for right now. It used to be that
> things like Pokémon and books about Resumé's wouldn't check out, but I
> believe this has been fixed (much to our squeeing excitement).
> 
> We also have 3M checkin chutes, with similarly trivial problems
> surrounding holds.
> 
> SIP has come a long way in the 3 years we've been on Koha.
> 
> Now, to make it work very well with Envisionware.... ;)
> 
> Liz Rea
> NEKLS
Hi,
BibLibre (and Tamil i think) would have the same reports here.
>From BibLibre experience,
main problems are :
- utf8 support which in the standard is not supported. You have do
disable the error checks. checksum could be badly processed in that case
i think.
- translations have to be hardcoded for server strings and date
strings... Which is quite annoying
- Bad dates on renewals when renewal is done (the duedate sticks)
and that's it.

What could be done would be to rework the C4::SIP in order to be more
compliant to the License (it was first written with evergreen iirc) and
to share more with openncip (openncip.org), where the software originated.

all in all, it works pretty good, with 3M, Nedap or IntellIdent self
checkout appliances.

Hope that helps.
-- 
Henri-Damien LAURENT
BibLibre