[Koha] [EXTERNAL] Circulating non-specific items

[Caroline Cyr La Rose]

Hi Fred,

That is what I had proposed at first (you can even add items in batch 
with the "Add multiple items" button), but they didn't like the idea of 
each dinosaur having its own barcode. However, I don't see how you can 
circulate in Koha without each item having its own barcode. I think they 
will have to bite the bullet and barcode each dinosaur if they want to 
use Koha to circulate. Otherwise, I'm sure they can continue with the 
spreadsheet method, since it seems to work for them right now. :/

Thanks!

Caroline

On 2023-03-15 16:01, King, Fred wrote:
> Hi Caroline,
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> I need to pick the collective brain about a question I received from one of our libraries.
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> 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.
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> Right now, they manage this in a spreadsheet, but would like to manage it in Koha with the rest of their inventory.
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> Do any of you have a similar situation? If so how do you manage those items?
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> Thank you so much!
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