[Koha] Classroom Checkouts

[Nora Blake]

Hi Lori,

We tuck the year of graduation into the sort2 field and the current classroom teacher into the sort1 field.  Our elementary librarians like having the school teacher in there because the kiddies tend to come to the library by class.  A "student" template for patron records would be nice!

I use a program called Great Barcode Generator to create the scannable barcode images.

Nora
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Nora Blake
MassCat Manager
Massachusetts Library System
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From: loriayre at gmail.com [mailto:loriayre at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:59 PM
To: Nora Blake
Cc: Koha list; Ruth Bavousett
Subject: Re: [Koha] Classroom Checkouts

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<mailto: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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Nora Blake
MassCat Manager
Massachusetts Library System
P.O. Box 609
South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241
508-357-2121 x123<tel:508-357-2121%20x123>
866-627-7228<tel:866-627-7228>
Email: nblake at masslibsystem.org<mailto:nblake at masslibsystem.org>
AIM: noraatmls


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From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz> [mailto: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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