Re: Student Bar Codes

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@TENET.EDU>]

On Thu, 1 Sep 1994, Betty Dawn Hamilton wrote:

> automation system, our original intent was to use the student number.
> The student number is assigned when the child enters school and goes with
> him/her until he/she graduates.  In high school students have to use that
> number for EVERYTHING.  It doesn't take them long to discover that they

> Our system has a place to show the projected graduation date, so I assume
> it will delete or store those names and numbers when that group graduates.
>
Betty (and others)
   Winnebago sets up the patron number series for you to use before they
send the software to you. You tell them what you want of course. In our
case all of our barcodes are in the 200,000 series (HS is 300,000,
Intermediate is 100,000, etc) so the patrons are automatically set up to
go from 201,000 to 209,999. We also use 14 digit barcodes so a patron's
full number would be 30041002011119 (the significant part is 201111 - the
last digit is a check-digit, the 30041 is the code for our building [HS
is 30001] and the middle 00 are place keepers.
   My memory of the state student number is that it is a social security
number. I'm not sure how Winnebago would/could handle that since all
patrons should be in the same number series. You'd have to ask them if
its possible.
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