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

2012-03-19 Thread Joel Harbottle
-general@list.georgialibraries.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:34:34 + To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote: You can do direct entry, which

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

2012-03-16 Thread Hardy, Elaine
: Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:31 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group 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

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

2012-03-16 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote: You can do direct entry, which would have the advantage for your student workers of taking longer. And it will also help them develop their touch-typing skills, something they need constant work on. However, the clear advantage a barcode

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

2012-03-16 Thread Denice Lee
...@list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of G. T. Stresen-Reuter Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:35 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote: You can do direct entry, which would have the advantage

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

2012-03-15 Thread Joel Harbottle
: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:51:56 + To: Evergreen Discussion Group open-ils-general@list.georgialibraries.org Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Hardy, Elaine wrote: Ted, The Z39.50 gateway is a client­server protocol for searching

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

2012-03-15 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
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

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

2012-03-14 Thread Hardy, Elaine
7:50 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bar Code Readers, ISBN, and Amazon Hi Ted, I think I've played with the program you've described, it ran on my Macbook, but cost money so I didn't get as far as I would have liked. It probably stores basic item information

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

2012-03-14 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Hardy, Elaine wrote: Ted, The Z39.50 gateway is a client–server protocol for searching and retrieving information (http://www.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#about) and, as Ben says, generally involves MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) formatted records entered

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

2012-03-13 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
Hi, Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere but I can't find what I'm looking for (read the FAQs, searched the list) and hope someone can help. Part of the problem is I'm not sure what to search for... I'm the IT guy at a small school in the Canary Islands. I'm trying to find a new ILS for

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

2012-03-13 Thread Lori Bowen Ayre
Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more complicated than you need. Have you checked out Koha ( http://www.koha-community.org)? Lori =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant / The Galecia Group Oversight

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

2012-03-13 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Mar 13, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote: Evergreen is a pretty serious ILS and is probably quite a bit more complicated than you need. Have you checked out Koha (http://www.koha-community.org)? We're reviewing Koha and biblioteq as well as Evergreen. Thanks for that link. The

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

2012-03-13 Thread Ben Shum
Hi Ted, I think I've played with the program you've described, it ran on my Macbook, but cost money so I didn't get as far as I would have liked. It probably stores basic item information (simple stuff like title, author, etc.) in a non-MARC format of some kind if it's generating data from