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Self check-in by patrons

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1Avasara
juny 3, 2019, 3:34 pm

Hi! We have a voluntary school library of about 5000 books. A few English teachers with volunteer students manage the library currently.

We love the self check-out button in TinyCat! Is there a way for students to check-in books themselves?

2kristilabrie
Editat: juny 4, 2019, 6:58 am

Unfortunately, no, there isn't a self-return feature. You'll need to have a teacher or volunteer return the books (perhaps periodically, in stacks, which would work fine from your Admin's Check in/out page: https://www.librarycat.org/admin/checkinout) as needed! Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let me know if you've got any other questions, happy to help.

3Avasara
Editat: juny 5, 2019, 6:59 am

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I am an English teacher at Avasara Academy, Pune, India. We have a library of about 5000 books, currently being managed by some language teachers and students. We're quite excited about using TinyCat!

I do have a few more questions:
1. Is it possible to have simple circulation for some patrons and individual accounts for others?

2. Is it possible to integrate subscriptions (like JSTOR) into the catalog and/or search function? This won't stop us from moving forward. I am just curious.

3. It would also be helpful to know if we can use our Google Apps sign-in to grant access to the individual accounts we create. It's often referred to as "single sign-on".

Thanks, again.

4kristilabrie
juny 5, 2019, 2:42 pm

That's great, it sounds like TC may well be a great solution for you!

Happy to answer your questions:
1. In short, no, sorry.

2. Another no, I'm afraid. We don't have periodicals or copies management at this time (though this could change), and I suspect that we won't add a feature for integrating subscriptions either. Sorry for the trouble.

3. I'm not familiar with this, and my inclination as such would be no. That said, do you have more information about what this feature does exactly? I'm not sure what you mean by granting access to the individual accounts you create. Thanks for clarifying!