[Koha] [EXTERNAL] Circulating non-specific items

[King, Fred]

Hi Caroline,

How about creating a bib record for "Dinosaur" and having each dinosaur be a separate item? You'd have to barcode every dinosaur, but it's easier to add an item than a bib record.

This one won't work even worse than the other one: one library I know of used to check out mass-market paperbacks by putting a date due card in the pocket but not actually keeping a record of what was checked out to whom. It worked for them.

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Hello everyone!

I need to pick the collective brain about a question I received from one of our libraries.

They are a toy/game library. For games and books, they circulate items normally. However, they have some toys in many copies and they don't need to or want to have a specific barcode for each copy of a particular toy. They gave me the example of dinosaur figurines. They have 60+ dinosaur figurines, but they don't need to know that *this exact* dinosaur figurine went home with this patron. They just need to know that *a* dinosaur figurine went home with this patron. They want to avoid having barcodes for each dinosaur.

Right now, they manage this in a spreadsheet, but would like to manage it in Koha with the rest of their inventory.

Do any of you have a similar situation? If so how do you manage those items?

Thank you so much!

Caroline Cyr-La-Rose, M.L.I.S.
Librarian | Product Manager

1-833-INLIBRO (465-4276), ext. 221
caroline.cyr-la-rose at inlibro.com
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