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. Fred King, MSLS, AHIP Medical Librarian, MedStar Washington Hospital Center fred.k...@medstar.net 202-877-6670 ORCID 0000-0001-5266-0279 MedStar Authors Catalog: http://medstarauthors.org You know it's cold outside when you go outside and it's cold. --NPS Twitter -----Original Message----- From: Koha <koha-boun...@lists.katipo.co.nz> On Behalf Of Caroline Cyr La Rose Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:49 PM To: Koha mailing list <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Koha] Circulating non-specific items **ATTENTION: This email originated from outside the MedStar Health network. ** DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 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! Caroline Cyr-La-Rose, M.L.I.S. Librarian | Product Manager 1-833-INLIBRO (465-4276), ext. 221 caroline.cyr-la-r...@inlibro.com https://www.inLibro.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MedStar Health is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system, the largest in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region. Nationally recognized for clinical quality in heart, orthopedics, cancer and GI. IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify sender by reply e-mail, so that our records can be corrected... Thank you. Help conserve valuable resources - only print this email if necessary. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
