Follett Mobile App
Contributed by Rayna Hyde-Lay, Shawnigan Lake School
Follett Mobile App
Follett offers a mobile app for iOs and Android which allows staff to check-in/out books and check patron status. The app, is free and offers flexibility for circulation as well as classroom collections from the library. We use the Follett App on iPhone and iPad. When students from our ELL learners program come to the library, I can set up two stations for circulation, one as the home room on self-checkout as well as one from the iPhone which searches for students by last name and eases the language barrier issues. As well, one of our English classrooms has a class collection of books from the library - for independent reading at the start of each class. The teacher has been given access to Follett and can use the app on their phone, for circulation issues when students want to remove the books from the class. This has saved books from being misplaced and replaces the need to transcribe the data from a clipboard. Functions available through the application include Check-in -- Check-out -- Patron Status -- Item Status.
Thanks, Rayna. I used this app when we underwent our last renovation. It was a godsend to be able to stay "open" when we were closed!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this information. I will put this in practice in the New Year!
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