[ISLMA-Share] handheld inventory scanner

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We do inventory with Chromebooks and haven't had any issues.  Hope this
helps!  Happy scanning!  :)

Ms. Rachel Fuller
Director of Library Media Services
Rochester Community Unit School District
rfuller at rochester3a.net
RHS Library website
<https://sites.google.com/a/rochester3a.net/rochester-c-u-s-d-library/>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Have any of you done inventory with a Chromebook?  Do your scanners
> recognize the Chromebook as a base?  My newer laptop (Mac) doesn't work
> with our main scanner.  Ugh- sorry - jumbled thoughts - lots of questions!
>
> Have any of you found or used a scanner with an iPod?
>
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> We have the Destiny app and as long as you have the right iPad it's works
>> fine.  It's a bit slower, but less expensive than buying another scanner.
>>
>> Betsy Yager
>> Library Media Specialist
>> Anne Sullivan School
>> Prospect Heights Dist. 23
>> byager at d23.org
>> 847-870-5591
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>> On Mar 19, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
>> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> I have had pretty good luck with either connecting a scanner to a laptop
>> (the trick is the scanner is looking for a keyboard signal so you have to
>> pair an old keyboard with the scanner.)
>>
>> Likewise, it also works really well to pair a blue tooth scanner with an
>> iPad. Scan all the barcodes into a Pages document. Email to yourself as a
>> Word. Save as plain text and then upload. (It's not as easy to find books
>> in the wrong spot or identify items that were missed on check in. Although
>> that probably never happens to anyone else...)
>>
>> Leah Krippner
>> Librarian, Harlem High School
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