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Does anyone have experience integrating Bibliotheca's RFID systems with ILS software? Our public library consortium just migrated to Evergreen ILS and I'm having a difficult time configuring Bibliotheca staffConnect Circ (uplink software needed for Bibliotheca RFID pads to connect with various ILS softwares) to work correctly with Evergreen and am still waiting to hear back from Bibliotheca Support. StaffConnect Circ can't seem to find the correct "target application" to use, presumably because Evergreen is browser based.

I was lead to believe from Bibliotheca's training that RFID pads are glorified barcode scanners in a sense, but Evergreen will not read the barcodes without staffConnect Circ running in the background. Help me to understand: if all we are using our RFID pads for is to scan barcodes (no security activation/de-activation) why do we need to use staffConnect Circ? I'm going to continue my own research into this, but thought I'd throw a plea into the wind in case anyone here is more familiar than I.

Does anyone have experience integrating Bibliotheca's RFID systems with Evergreen? Our consortium just migrated to Evergreen and I'm having a difficult time configuring Bibliotheca staffConnect Circ to work correctly with Evergreen (and still waiting to hear back from Bibliotheca Support). StaffConnect Circ can't seem to find the correct "target application" to use, presumably because Evergreen is browser based. On top of that, I'm trying to understand the right default configurations to use; we aren't using RFID for security, so I'm trying to make this as simple as possible for staff —ideally, after staffConnect Circ opens on startup (set in Windows) they wouldn't have to interface with staffConnect Circ at all.

I was lead to believe from Bibliotheca's training that the RFID pads are glorified barcode scanners in a sense, but Evergreen will not read the barcodes without staffConnect Circ running in the background. Help me to understand: if all we are using our RFID pads for is to scan barcodes (no security activation/de-activation) why do we need to use staffConnect Circ? I'm going to continue my own research into this, but thought I'd throw a plea into the wind in case anyone here is more familiar than I.