[Koha] Classroom Checkouts

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

I'm sure we can come up with a better solution!  Let's continue to flesh
this out....

Do these students have only one teacher to worry about each year?  Or are
there several teachers that need to be associated with each student?

Would it help to add a field indicating their (expected) graduating year?
 Maybe to make some batch changes for example?

What's the name of the program that you use to generate the scannable
barcodes.

I'm copying this to a ByWater miracle worker...Ruth Bavousett, in case she
has brilliant ideas to make this easier for everyone!

Lori

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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:45 AM, 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.
>
> 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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>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Koha list
> 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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