[Koha] Classroom Checkouts

Chris Nighswonger cnighswonger at foundations.edu
Sat May 26 06:37:39 NZST 2012


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Nora Blake <Nblake at masslibsystem.org>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
We use Koha's patron card creator to create a patron card batch for each
class/grade and use a template generate scan sheets for each which contain
the student's name and barcode.

I'd imagine that the the patron search could  simplify the batch creation
for larger schools.

Kind Regards,
Chris


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