[OPLINLIST] Library Card App

[Jimmie Epling]

About a year ago, I discovered CardStar and also thought it a great idea for libraries.  What I discovered is it will not work with all scanners, regardless of what I did..  For whatever reason, some scanners will not recognize the barcodes.  Out of about 10 different libraries I tried, I only got two to actually recognize the barcode.
I've tried it with a few business rewards cards and have not been successful for the most part.
CardStar is a great idea, but has its limitations.

Jimmie

Jimmie Epling
Director
Wayne County Public Library
304 N. Market Street / P.O. Box 1349
Wooster, OH 44691
O: 330.262.0986 / 330.804.4702  Ext. 7022
C: 606.923.1576
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From: Debra Wittkop [mailto:DWITTKOP at columbuslibrary.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:20 PM
To: oplinlist at lists.oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINLIST] Library Card App

CardStar is a mobile application that scans all membership cards and stores them on your smartphone/ipod.  I was trying to use it with our library cards, but after getting them input manually by typing in the numbers, the barcodes will not scan.  Any libraries out there have any luck with this?  There is a tutorial online from a library in Illinois for their patrons (so someone has gotten it to work) and many Ohio libraries are listed as "Merchants" on the CardStar app as location.  I was wondering if it was our scanners perhaps that are the problem or the library cards (maybe we need to explore other vendors?) as I can't get them to be entered in through camera mode.

I have also tried one called "Key Ring" with the same results.

Any advice or input is appreciated!

Debbie Wittkop
Circulation Services Librarian
Southwest Public Libraries
Grove City Public Library
3359 Park Street
Grove City, OH 43123
614.875.6716 x134
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