>From my time working for a small hotel that used magnetic key cards and credit >card readers, I can say that (generally speaking): A magcard reader is very >much like a barcode reader . It reads the data from the card and puts it out >as if it was typed into a keyboard. I would get a card and cardreader and see what data it puts into notepad (or something similar) when you swipe it.
Aaron Z Jr. Systems Administrator Pioneer Library System 2557 State Rt. 21 Canandaigua, New York 14424 Phone: (585) 394-8260 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Spindler" <[email protected]> > To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:23:28 PM > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fwd: campus card compatibility with > Evergreen Library installation > Hello, > One of our member libraries is looking at a new campus card system. > Please see her message below. She is wonderiing if any other > Evergreen libraries in an academic library has run into any issues. > Tim > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Beth, Amy < [email protected] > > Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM > Subject: Fwd: campus card compatibility with Evergreen Library > installation > To: Tim Spindler < [email protected] >, "Noel, Kim" < > [email protected] > > Greetings. Hoping you can help. > We are working with the following consultant/vendor > http://www.allcampuscard.com/ to implement an All Campus Card system > at our institution Springfield Technical Community College). The > representative, Bob Huber, claims he never contacts the ILS vendors > to determine compatibility. I am, of course, at a loss as to > determining if our upcoming installation of Evergreen (we are a C/W > Mars academic library in Massachusetts due to migrate on May 31st) > will interface well with this magnetic strip one card platform or > not. Our campus card would go into effect by Fall. No other C/W Mars > libraries use a magnetic strip card on their sites-- but that > doesn't indicate anything since the overwhelming libraries > participating in this consortium are small public libraries and we > are an outlier as an academic campus. I have already asked the staff > at C/W Mars to vet this and they state it is beyond their scope for > this project (which is focused on an ILS migration for a majority of > public libraries) > Please direct me to an Evergreen community member or developer or a > client who could assist. I would be extremely grateful. > All best, ab > -- > Amy Beth > Dean of Library Services > Springfield Technical Community College > 1 Armory Sq. > Springfield, MA 01105 > Phone: 413 755-4531 > http://library.stcc.edu/ > email: [email protected] > -- > Amy Beth > Dean of Library Services > Springfield Technical Community College > 1 Armory Sq. > Springfield, MA 01105 > Phone: 413 755-4531 > http://library.stcc.edu/ > email: [email protected] > -- > Tim Spindler > Manager of Library Applications > [email protected] > 508-755-3323 x20 > C/W MARS, Inc. > 67 Millbrook St, Suite 201 > Worcester , MA 01606 > http://www.cwmars.org > P Go Green - Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's > really necessary.
