This should do to catalogue a very small library; and if it doesn't, why then, I can take advantage of the open source.
For instance, rather a small SMS application might work for saying-goodbye book checkout; it's true that standing in the front hall using a cellphone to email my own basement to update information about an object I have just physically handed someone is pretty silly, but it would amuse our friends. And it wouldn't require sticking paper or RFID to every volume, either.
Or, once they're in a database, we can presumably print a barcode for each checkout card and update loan status that way. But I'd want SMS anyhow for the embarrassingly frequent bookstore question, 'Do we have this yet?' —and the dual, suitable for use in airports and around holidays, of 'Now we own a copy, don't buy another.'
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