[Koha] Circulating non-specific items

[Lauren Denny]

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 at 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!
>
> Caroline Cyr-La-Rose, M.L.I.S.
> Librarian | Product Manager
>
> 1-833-INLIBRO (465-4276), ext. 221
> caroline.cyr-la-rose at inlibro.com
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