[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

[Hardy, Elaine]

You can do direct entry, which would have the advantage for your student
workers of taking longer. However, the clear advantage a barcode scanner
has it that it reduces transcription errors -- which is extremely
important for item barcodes. If a typo is made in one of those, you might
not find out until at the circ desk when it will look like the item isn't
in the system.

Elaine
 
 
J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
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Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
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G. T. Stresen-Reuter
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon

On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Joel Harbottle wrote:

> If you have a barcode reader, your librarian just scans the barcode
> and it immediately reads and registers the barcode on the computer,
> because a barcode reader just acts like a normal keyboard connected to a
computer.

Yeah.... that's all very true but I'm in a somewhat financially strained
environment and even expenses as small as that (even buying one used) are
sometimes subject to scrutiny and denied, so I was just sort of exploring
the alternatives. Also, we have students who will probably end up doing a
fair amount of the data entry and they won't care how long it takes ;-)
(they'll thank me for making it take longer!)

Anyway, I completely agree and am already looking around for a reasonable
solution.

Thanks for the ideas!

Ted