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Your perspective on convenience complicates identifying items. How is BQ supposed to know how your library identifies an item for reservation? We have unique ISBNs and we have books without...

If I'm scanning a barcode for my library, that better be the only item having that value. I'm in a busted reality if it isn't. So should BQ retrieve all...

And before you suggest more fields, do realize that that already exists in proper searches. So BA would become a lesser proper search with convenience in mind without being convenient....

> I hear your difficulty, with the argument another library may have chosen another field. Suggestions : > > * allow the user to define the field of his "local...

For all categories save for books, there is just one field (id) to identify the item. For books, there are unknown number of fields. Ignore ISBNs. What's left? callnumber, accession_number,...

> suggestion : why not make a pop-up with the fields used to put a barcode and let the user choose the field he will scan. (same demo as for...

ISBN-13 starts with 978 or more now. So? Nothing prevents that from being an accession number.

My solution order is: accession_number, id, isbn-13. Simple and if your library is broken that's your fault. :D

> If the user specifies the search field, he knows what he is putting in. > > I'm running out of arguments to convince you so I give up :...

> The categories : book, cd , dvd, newspaper, magazine, photography have an accession_number field. only grey literature doesn't have one. > > I think that accession_number is the right...