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Re: Software to Track Loaned Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Steel)
Fri May 6 11:43:20 2011
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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:42:57 -0400
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From: Chuck Steel <chuck.steel@gmail.com>
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Ditto. We're a merged organization, so the politics were simpler for
us (although they certainly still existed). Your Library probably has
very good processes for collecting late fees, too, which should turn
out to be a good bonus, if you don't already have a system for that.
--
Chuck Steel
Dickinson College
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Erin Nettifee <erin.nettifee@duke.edu> wrote:
> At Duke, we jumped on with the bandwagon with our Library circulation system. It does everything for us. I'd encourage you to ask your library folks and see if you can do something with them.
>
> Best,
> Erin
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> Erin Nettifee
> Coordinator of Academic Support / Link Liaison
> Duke University Office of Information Technology
> erin.nettifee@duke.edu
> (919) 668-4829 (desk)
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>
>
> On May 6, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Kathy Kellie wrote:
>
>> We would like to get away from all the paper forms and automate
>> looking for overdue equipment which is loaned out to students.
>> I used an Access template one year but it was a disaster. The
>> students workers who entered the information somehow lost records.
>> Rather than make a homegrown database (don't have the time to
>> create and test), I would like to purchase one that will read barcodes,
>> keep an inventory, track who has the equipment and what is overdue.
>> Anyone currently using a program to do this? I don't want to spend
>> tons of money for this.
>>
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