I was told by someone at the online catalog system that we use (LibraryCom), that you should be careful that your barcodes for books are different from your barcodes for patrons.
We prefix the patron number with a "p". Also he suggested that if you buy, say 10,000 barcodes, then you might want to assign book numbers from the beginning (0001, 00002, ....) and patron numbers from the end (9999, 9998, ...). We have not actually purchased barcode labels because our library is too small at this point to need them. Also, different systems use different kinds of barcodes and scanners; and we're not sure how long we're staying with LibraryCom and what we would switch to. Wow, this is my first possible posting. [From the moderator: Mazal tov!] Rose Myers Community Library at the JCCS Bridgeport, CT =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
