[Koha] New to KOHA

Paul POULAIN paul.poulain at free.fr
Tue Feb 28 09:43:07 NZDT 2006


Chris Cormack a écrit :
> Marie Wardall wrote:
> 
>> Yes storing barcodes in a scanner and then dumping them into the circ 
>> station is what I mean.  We close down the library for two plus days 
>> and scan everything in the library for inventory.  We run reports 
>> against the shelves for missing items that have not been scanned and 
>> we can tell then what items were mysteriously lost that year.
>>
>> Marie
>>
> 
> Hi Marie
> 
> Luckily for you, Koha has got just the thing, thanks to Tümer Garip
> Heres some of a an email that Paul forwarded to the development list 
> last week.
> 
>  > Hi again,
>  > Here is another script which you may find useful.
>  >
>  > It simply reads barcodes and marks the items as seen for stock control.
>  > We have wireless network, so the librarian goes around with a wireless
>  > notebook shelfreeding the barcodes which automatically updates the
>  > database items.datelastseen.
>  >
>  > For off-line use it can read a textfile of barcodes (read through a
>  > handheld barcode reader) and update them all at once.
>  >
>  > You may use or improve it as you like.

Hello Marie,

in fact, henri Damien already developped such a script, it's in CVS, it 
will be available in 2.2.6 (end of march)


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Paul POULAIN
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