Thursday, September 10, 2015

Self Checkout Station

Today was a good day. Because I want the majority of my time to be spent with students and teachers, and because I want to empower students and give them access to the library throughout the entire school day, I needed a self checkout station. Yesterday Follett tweeted me these Setting Up a Self-Checkout Station directions for Destiny Library Manager...the Destiny setup process only took five minutes.






Bob, Dennis, and John (part of the magical Burlington Public Schools Educational Technology Team) came to Memorial Elementary School today to set up the station. (Luckily the library had an extra desktop computer and the EdTech Team had an extra bar code scanner.) I'm incredibly grateful.


These 4th graders had a BLAST checking out their own books this afternoon.
Self Checkout Directions:
  1. Scan or type in your LASID number
  2. Scan the library book barcode (not the ISBN barcode)
  3. Click “Reset”

6 comments :

  1. Wonderful solution Rachel! I know this will free up some of your time, as well as empower your students. Have a great year!

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    1. Thank you, Susan! I'm grateful to have you as a mentor this year!

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  2. Hi! Do you also have the kids check in items on their own?

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    1. Hi! Great question. At this time, no I don't...perhaps in the future.

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  3. Hi again, Rachel :) Do you have them check out DVDs on their own too? If so, have you encountered any problems with that? Do you keep the actual DVD inside its corresponding case, and then display it on the shelves for borrowing?

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    1. Hello, Marie! :-) Students don't check out DVDs on their own because students nor teachers use DVDs very much anymore as we stream most everything. But if students did check out DVDs, I would let them use self check out. Thanks for asking! :-)

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