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Hi, I haven't used it for circ, but there's an iPad app that allows you to use your iPad as a remote interface to your desktop or laptop. I don't like carrying my macbook pro around to meetings, but I always get asked questions that require using the ILS client. (We have Innovative Millennium.) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connect-my-mac/id364933429 (or http://bit.ly/connecttomymac) With this app, my laptop has to be connected to the network and on, but I just hit the icon, touch the name of my laptop, and I can run any application that's on there. Not sure about using a barcode scanner with this, though. I can select fields in the ILS and type on the screen. I would hope that a bluetooth barcode scanner would act just like a bluetooth keyboard, but I don't have one of those yet either so I can't swear it would work. Hope this helps, Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 [log in to unmask] On 1/23/13 12:34 PM, "Stephen Francoeur" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >We're looking into ways that tablets might be used by library staff >assisting patrons in a long line at the circ desk. With a tablet, an >additional staff person could pick folks off the line who might have >things >that can be handled on a properly outfitted tablet. > >I am wondering if anyone has any examples of a library using the camera on >a tablet to scan barcodes on library materials (for check out or check in) >or if anyone has used one of those magnetic stripe readers that you can >attach to some tablets (such as the Square Register for the iPad which can >be used to process credit cards)? I'm sure it's been done with a netbook; >we're solely interested in doing this with a tablet. > >We're trying to see if we can install the GUI for Ex Libris Aleph on a >tablet running Microsoft RT. If this might work on tablets running Android >or iOS, that would be interesting as well. > >Any examples or thoughts about this would be most welcome. > >Thanks! > >Stephen Francoeur > >User Experience Librarian > >Newman Library > >Room 516 > >Baruch College > >151 E. 25th Street > >New York, NY 10010 > > > >646.312.1620 > >[log in to unmask] > >http://stephenfrancoeur.com