Re: AUTOMATION CHECK OUT

["Jayne E. Moore" <jmoore@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Cele Albrecht wrote:

> Does anyone have experience in middle school book check out when you do not
> have the personnel to keep the desk manned at all times?  Do you double up,
> i.e. both barcoded book cards and books; do you let the kids wand their own
> books (horrors!)  Any suggestions?
>

I keep a clipboard at the circulation desk, on which students put down
their patron barcode number, name, partial title of the book, and
barcode number of the book.  They only use this if no one is around.
When I or a media aide comes back, one of us will enter the info into
the computer and cross out the information on the clipboard (we are
using Alexandria and it is simple to make the entry!).

Jayne Moore                     jmoore@umd5.umd.edu
St. Michaels High School        tel (410) 745-2852
200 Seymour Avenue              fax (410) 745-3532
St. Michaels MD  21663