Are any Evergreeners accepting smartphone apps that store card barcodes?
(CardStar, Keyring, etc) Or I guess I should ask, WHO is doing this?
To keep this Evergreen related, are you using anything in the staff client to
verify patrons are who their phone says they are? We don't like that anyone
My library accepts them so long as the scanner can scan them. Making staff
type in the number would be cumbersome with our lines.
I know that there have been some customizations libraries have done in the
past to store signatures and photos but our attitude is, we normally just
accept a barcode
accounts they didn’t
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>> Thanks, Rogan.
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>> -Holly
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>> *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:
>> open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Rogan
>> Ham
Forsyth has a few customers who use barcode apps on their phones. As Rogan
said, if the scanner can read them, we accept them. It's not really any
different from scanning an actual library card for us since we don't store
patron photos anyway. If somebody presents a card with a name and
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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] smartphone apps instead of library card
Are any Evergreeners accepting smartphone apps that store card barcodes?
(CardStar, Keyring, etc) Or I guess I should ask, WHO is doing this?
To keep this
