• Avatar Jeremy Hobbs University of California, Santa Barbara

    Lead Library Systems & Applications Developer

  • GobiChecker
    GobiChecker is a program that takes a brief export of Gobi requests and searches Alma for duplicates holdings in both the institution zone (IZ) and the network zone (NZ).It uses the ISBN as an index and uses SRU searching to find local print, ebook, or other holdings.It also checks your network zone for consortial ebook…

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    ASRS Fetcher
    ASRS Fetcher is a program for making bulk requests in Alma, for libraries using an ASRS machine.ASRS Fetcher takes an excel spreadsheet of barcodes and makes requests on those items, one-by-one.Grab the latest release here: https://github.com/MrJeremyHobbs/ASRS-Fetcher/releases

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    Book-Be-Gone
    Book-Be-Gone is for withdrawing books in Alma. A user scans the barcode of an item and Book-Be-Gone performs some checks before adding it to a set in Alma. The user then runs the "withdraw items" job on the set to finish the process. Book-Be-Gone can also append the OCLC numbers for all scanned items into…

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    LazyLists
    LazyLists allows a user to scan the barcode of an item in hand and add that item to a physical items set in Alma. The user can then run a job on that set, export to a spreadsheet, or any other function that can be performed on a set in Alma. Simply scan a barcode…

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    RoboReturns
    It sometimes happens that libraries need to return large numbers of items in bulk. Scanning each item one-by-one is always an option, but not practical for large numbers of returns.RoboReturns is a Microsoft Windows (32-bit/64-bit) application that takes a file of barcodes (XLSX, CSV, or tab-delimited TXT) and returns them one-by-one.RoboReturns can also record in-house…

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