Monthly Archives: March 2009

Staff Client Advanced Search

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Sharon

Please review these Staff Client Advanced Search videos and let me know if you find these useful for staff.  We can create similar videos for the OPAC to share with patrons.  These cover the basic parts and pieces of the Advanced Search page, series searching, and format searching.
TIPS: The wildcard character in Koha is “%” [...]

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Lost Items and OPAC Videos

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Sharon

Update: Video content lost January 2010. Out of date, so will not be re-created at this time.
We discovered a ‘canned’ Koha report on the Reports page called “Lost Items” that we would love some feedback on.  I have created a short TRAINING VIDEO about it (because they are fun, I admit it).  Please let us [...]

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Check Item Status

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Sharon

Scenario:
You find a book that doesn’t belong to your library on a table and you want to find out if it’s checked out, in transit, lost, stolen, etc.  What do you do?
Solution: Go to the staff client.  Go to the “Search the Catalog” search box.  Type in an asterisk “barcode: ” and scan the barcode.  [...]

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