[Koha] Classroom Checkouts

[Nora Blake]

Hi Lori,

We don't do this exactly.  Instead we create these checkout sheets for each grade of the elementary school.  We store the grade level information in the sort 1 field, write a report to export the patron name, grade level and barcode number, run the spreadsheet through another program (not open source) that creates a scannable barcode image for each patron.  We then import the barcode images one by one into a word document where we group them by grade so that the librarians have a "scan sheet" for each grade.

Not easy at all!

We've tried convincing the staff at our elementary schools that they can just look the students up by name, but they're convince it takes too long and they just simple NEED to have these scan sheets (which systems like Winnebago created for them very easily).

If anyone can come up with a better solution, I would worship you forever.

Nora
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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:46 PM
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Subject: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts

Anyone ever heard of "Classroom Checkouts?"  Evidently it is a feature of Follett in which a patron record get labelled as a "teacher" and this allows that teacher to be somehow related to his or her students.  The idea is that when the students are going to the library, the library staff can easily generate a list of barcodes associated with that teacher (in lieu of library cards I guess....).

Anyone heard of such a thing or have a way to accomplish something similar in Koha?

Lori

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