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I am looking for a solution to scan ISBN (with my smartphone) and automatically search them in our catalogue. I need it for a very specific purpose: going through large amounts of books at fairs in a quick fashion. Only need to check availability.

I found an older Code4Lib article (see above) but I have no idea of coding and great optimism that there should be easier/newer solutions?

Any ideas appreciated, thank :)

#libraries #librarians #search #help @librarians @libraries

@schlojj @librarians @libraries @librarythingtim I’m not sure if it has a solution for you, but if you don’t already know about it, LibraryThing might have something you could use.

@LilacsInMA @schlojj @librarians @libraries @librarythingtim seems like, if your catalog has the right API/z39.50 you could make a simple php search form that invokes the z39.50 search.
Or, just make it searchable through Library thing and use their interface?

@aarbrk hey thanks! we ended up using regular scan pistols and scanning from the web interface of our catalogue and I left it at that. i might write the IA at some point this week to see if they can explain how they did it, but as I was probably the only one at the @ibero_amerikanisches_institut interested in this solution and leaving in a octobre

@yassin danke! ich schaue es mir nachher an, gerade sagt er mir ich brauche einen Barcode-Scanner, der aber für mein Android nicht verfügbar ist.

@schlojj Gibt auch haufenweise Barcodescanner auf fdroid :)