[Koha] New to KOHA

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:06:38PM -0500, Stephen Hedges wrote:
> Most vendors of barcode scanners know how to program their products for
> Follett systems, so they can sell to schools that use Follett.  Those same
> vendors can help you program your scanners to simply remove the last three
> digits.  Then the barcode example above would look like "0001234" when
> scanned into Koha.  Staff quickly get used to making this conversion in
> their heads if they need to type in a number manually.  Works fine.  (But
> don't expect the Follett folks to help you with the scanner programming,
> of course!)
Also worth noting that a few of the scanners at Nelsonville don't have
the ability to remove the last three digits -- but NPL's Koha is set
up to check for that condition and remove them ... try that with 
a proprietary system :-).

Cheers,

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