[Koha] Patron Barcode Question

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Wed Feb 24 09:14:22 NZDT 2010


On 24 February 2010 08:10, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Becki - thanks for all of that!!
>
> My question is not so much where do barcodes come from - but how is it
> that my Koha knows what the next barcode is - who gave it the first
> barcode to calculate all the others based on? It wasn't me - and if it
> was I didn't realize I was doing it ;)
>
It only assigns you barcodes if you switch that option on. Most
libraries I have worked with get pre printed cards, and scan them in
when registering a borrower.

If you have autoMemberNum on, it will start at 1 and work up, theres
nothing much more to it than that.


More information about the Koha mailing list