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re-lend from home ? "Book checkouts are being done by spreadsheet. Column A: the library user’s account number. Column B: the book’s bar code number. The low-t
by rolph 2y ago
re-lend from home ?
"Book checkouts are being done by spreadsheet. Column A: the library user’s account number. Column B: the book’s bar code number. The low-tech inventory will be integrated with the library’s normal account system at some future, unknown date."
- this is how we did it not too long ago; and before that, we had a signout card, held by library until return.
before that was a handwritten ledger.
- chuckadams 2y agoAdd an automatic timestamp column and you're mostly golden, you could rebuild most of the inventory state from that. Complex systems should be able to be rebuilt from simple logs. I'm not saying event sourcing makes it trivial to rebuild from scratch, but I suspect their currently ransomware-encrypted system was designed such that it's not even possible.
- rolph 2y agoquite a few years ago, there was a punchclock-like device, the librarian punched the card, time stamp ; and patron number punched on a card [ that was kept in the volume and transfered to the borrowed stack on loan]