[Koha] Inventory barcode scanner

[David Schuster]

A netbook/laptop would be the most efficient way to do this with multiple
uses.  I have seen lightpens lately that are USB for $34 that would work
great for this as they have long cords.  I also have an HHP scanner that is
bluetooth that I believe was about $350 - with a USB connection except that
has an external power supply requirement.

I have some old handheld scanners from our legacy system we paid over $1000
for each that I have been able to reprogram to collect barcodes and have
successfully uploaded that data and processed it in a test.(Falcon units
from PSC)

We are not excited about inventory as it only says if the item is there or
not and from conversations 3.0 inventory didn't take into account if it was
checked out or not from my understanding -
http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3123 and based on
this bug there are other items that are being fixed as well...

I see us sponsoring some development with inventory in the future, but that
is on hold right now as we wait for some other developments.

David Schuster
Plano ISD


Nicole Engard-2 wrote:
> 
> Katie,
> 
> If you have a laptop in the library and a book cart you can plug any
> scanner in to the laptop and push the laptop around the library -
> that's the cheapest ;) no buying anything new.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> 2009/12/3 Greer, Katie <kgreer at madonna.edu>:
>> Has anyone been using a portable barcode scanner with the inventory
>> module
>> in Koha?  I’m looking for product recommendations, as we’d like to do an
>> inventory of the collection next summer.  The cheaper the scanner, the
>> better, of course!
>>
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