Re: [Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Yes. This is fairly standard stuff. Here in India we often have semester long loan of a fixed number of books for students coming from economically backward strata. Books thus lent usually use a custom item type typically called as Book Bank (and therefore with an item type code of BBK). These

Re: [Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread Owen Leonard
> Simple question - I hope - is it possible to use Koha in this way? Yes. I think what you describe is typical for library operation except for the duration of the loan, and Koha can handle that just fine. Koha makes it possible for you to create custom reports (see examples here:

[Koha] Using Koha for school textbook loan scheme

2019-06-11 Thread doheochai
Hi - I am the IT coordinator in a school in Ireland (by coordinator it doesn't mean that I know anything about IT). Our school intends to implement a school textbook loan scheme in order to reduce the cost of providing school textbooks for parents. I search for information but the only thing I