RE: Scanning into a laptop

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To add to what Doug Payne said, we have a neat cart that we setup for our soon to be implemented serials barcoding project. We purchased a laptop with a wireless network card (our whole library is "lit up") and have a USB scanner attached to it. It is doing a great job (I am at home, but it was a modestly priced Symbol scanner). It seems that these are becoming pretty standard fare.

What I like is the cart that the laptop sits on. We purchased it from Anthro (I have been pretty happy with their furniture). It is basically a stool with legs. They have all sorts of add ons for shelves that can be perfect for this kind of project. The website is www.anthro.com.

Hope this helps --

Corey



Corey Seeman
Assistant Dean for Resource & Systems Management
University of Toledo
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Sent: Mon 3/29/2004 2:56 PM
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Subject: Scanning into a laptop



Is anyone doing any scanning, for inhouse or inventory, using a barcode
scanner and a laptop?

We have had so many problems with Percon type scanning that we are
looking for something better.

I know about using PDAs, which is interesting but looking for more
control at the scan time. (ie. Call number out of sequence.)

Some tests here with barcode scanning into a laptop (thru a wedge) has
some problems. Not all digits are scanned or are scanned incorrectly.
>From a scanner into a conversion to USB port wedge is better but not good
enough.

Scanner needs to be a gun type scanner. Specifically does a scanner with
a USB connector on the other end of the scanner cable work ok into a
laptop?

Note: Desktop works ok. Why not laptop? Laptops are already plenty big
enough to carry around in the stacks. Maybe too big.


Thanks is advance for any advice.


Steve Sowder Systems Librarian
sowder@xxxxxxxxxx Andrews University
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