Say you have a cart of books to weed, and want to check "last copy" status for each. By scanning each barcode, you'll see a message on whether it's the last copy. If it isn't the barcode will be added to a text file, which you can download when you're finished (for later loading into Alma).
The steps:
- Select your institution.
- Click "Begin a new text file of barcodes".
- Scan each barcode in turn, taking care to view the response (you may want to set your last copies aside, etc.).
- When finished, click "I'm done scanning, and ready to download the text file".
- On the resulting page, click "Download file". This will give you a text file of non-last copy barodes.
This can be deployed to a webserver running PHP, or can be run locally on a computer running PHP.
For use on a mac, download and unzip the code. Then in terminal, navigate to the unzipped directory, and run: php -S localhost:8000. Then visit http://localhost:8000 in a web browser to begin using.