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. This will give you the status of the item WITHOUT accidentally checking it in.
Updated Nov. 2009 – the “*” feature was removed after one of our upgrades and you have to type in ‘barcode: ‘ now – boo hoo, but we’ll live 