[Evergreen-general] Checking out bookbags

[Benjamin Kalish]

Thanks Terran and Elaine. I'll look into these!

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On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:15 AM Elaine Hardy <ehardy at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> Benjamin,
>
> You can probably use the conjoined item functionality to do what you want.
> This is done in cataloging and ties items on separate bib records together.
> Generally used for titles bound together locally, or kits that are created
> locally. PINES hasn't implemented this so I am not fly versed it it but you
> might ask your cataloging staff to take a look and see if it is what you
> need.
>
> Elaine
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> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:22 AM Benjamin Kalish <bkalish at forbeslibrary.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Does Evergreen have a way to quickly checkout batches of items by
>> assigning a single barcode to a set of items? To be clear, in the scenario
>> I'm imagining, each individual item is cataloged and has its own barcode—we
>> want to be able to bundle them and assign a barcode to the bundle so that
>> they are each individually checked out when the barcode assigned to the
>> bundle is scanned; each individual item must checked out to the patron and
>> be able to be returned and renewed individually.
>>
>> I've encountered item buckets before, and they seem very promising, but
>> as far as I can tell they can't quite do what we want.
>>
>> All of this is in aid of our aspirations to have bookbags which patrons
>> can quickly checkout at a self checkout machine. I'd also be interested in
>> any ideas folks have about how to achieve this material already in our
>> collection.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Benjamin Kalish
>> Forbes Library / 413-587-1012 / bkalish at forbeslibrary.org
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