[Publib] Re: Barcode placement on materials

[Edward Elsner]

We have moved to placing the barcode on the front of all our books, usually in the top left corner.  Once we had Wifi and laptops with scanners for our inventory, we noticed it was much, much easier (factor of a hundred) to simply tilt out the paperbacks we'd been barcoding on the front and scan them.  I found I could do a whole shelf of paperbacks in the time it took to do a handful of hardcovers with barcodes inside the front cover.

With covers being highly graphic in nature, usually with one piece of artwork for the whole front, we've never found ourselves unable to place a barcode somewhere on the front of the book.

Edward Elsner, Director & Consultant
Delton District Library
P.O. Box 155
Delton, MI 49046
(269) 623-8040
ddl at mei.net








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