We’ve been using Groovix for all of that for about 15 years.
(We don’t have reservations, but it is there if we wanted to.)
Most of that time we’ve run it on tiny micro-PCs of one kind or another. (Asus
EEEBox, Optiplex Micro, Zotac ZBox, etc)
Been very happy with it… probably the best customer
Another…
A library building is undergoing remodeling or repairs, during which part of
the collection has been stored in a way (or at a location) that is not readily
accessible to the public. But staff still needs to be able to see what is
there.
Have actually done that twice here in our
We regularly run a few little reports that seem to help ease things for those
concerned about resource sharing.
One is a grid, with counts of circulations of “our stuff” in a month to “not
our patrons”.
Each row is a library or branch, representing the owner of items.
Each column is also a
>Make use of the bookmark bar to house commonly accessed pages/functions
This, plus include the F-key shortcut in the names of the bookmarks for those
pages that can be called with one. (Checkout – F1, Checkin-F2, Item Status –
F5, etc)
Also… Ctrl+C for copying anything (like a barcode) works
It won’t be changing the checkin scan time of the actual circ transaction
either… not much of anything to worry about.
We do have a bookdrop/sorter now, but back before then checkin/checkout was
always kept separate. On a designated workstation, that while doing checkins,
that was all it
With an automatic “seamless” sort of solution, I would want the ability to
exercise some control over it.
Just because it can manage to talk to the server for a moment, doesn’t
necessarily mean it should be considered up and ready to start accepting
inbound offline transactions.
Generally
