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I agree with Cynthia. We use our laptops in our wireless library on a 
roll cart to scan books, make corrections, whatever changes our needed 
while we are doing our inventory. With Follett's Destiny, we can do the 
inventory in the middle of the school year and work as long as needed to 
complete it. It really relieves that "end of the year" stress. We do an 
inventory every year for the same reasons others have mentioned.
Sue McGown
St. John's School
Houston, TX

Cynthia Thompson wrote:

>I also use a laptop.  Using a laptop allows me to make corrections to the 
>collection.  The handheld scanners just dump the information. We found that we 
>still had to go through line by line to find out if there are any discrepancies 
>with the books we scanned.  
>
>For example, our system requires that we respond when a book that was lost is 
>found, but by just dumping the information, the computer fails to prompt us and 
>the book remains listed as lost.  After 2 years on the lost list, we purge the 
>list.  Usually this is the time when someone will try to check the book out, which 
>is now no longer in our system!
>
>After doing this for 13 years, I prefer a laptop with an airport and a bar scanner 
>on a roll cart every time! 
>
>
>Cindy Thompson
>Library Assistant/Longwood LMS Student
>Jane H. Bryan Elementary
>Hampton, VA 23666
>cthompson@sbo.hampton.k12.va.us
>
>Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a 
>gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. . . . . I . . . am a 
>librarian. ~ Evie from The Mummy (1999)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Amy Goldsmith <amy@ALUMNI.PRINCETON.EDU>
>Date: Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:43 am
>Subject: Hand-held scanners & inventory
>
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>To those doing inventory with hand-held
>>scanners... I think there's a better way. When
>>we had a hand-held, it was a simple of device
>>that collected barcodes, which were dumped to
>>the database at intervals. When we actually used
>>the (expensive) hardware we'd ordered, we found
>>that it did NOT work with our Macintosh system,
>>and never had, and the mfr didn't even know!
>>
>>So... we sent it back, and found a better solution.
>>We got a wireless Airport base station for the Mac,
>>and a laptop, and hooked the regular (desk) barcode
>>scanner to that. In other words, we made it so the
>>library database can go with us to the shelf, easily.
>>
>>Upon reflection, I was glad we had to work out
>>this solution. There are enough barcode misreads,
>>found books, etc. that having them all stream by
>>as they are dumped from the hand-held scanner
>>would be far less useful. I find that I check a lot
>>more info about the book this way, because I
>>have the book right there when inventory finds
>>its database record.
>>
>>If hand-held devices are no longer batch barcode
>>collectors, maybe they are now more worthwhile...
>>but they're probably still pricey. ;)
>>
>>- Amy Goldsmith
>>Daves Avenue School
>>Los Gatos, CA 95030
>>amy@alumni.princeton.edu
>>
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