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,
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!
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