GEN: Placement of barcodes on front cover?

[Rena Deutsch <renadeutsch@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

Does anyone place their barcodes (and date due slip) on the outside front
cover of your books?

Up until now, we have placed our barcodes in the back of our books on the
inside -- inside back cover if possible, otherwise the page opposite the
back cover.  Before we were automated, we used pockets; now we just have a
date due slip.

As we attempt to do our first real inventory, we are reconsidering their
placement, and are leaning towards putting them on the outside of the books
from now on.  If we do this, we would like to place the date due slip on the
outside of the book as well.

We have seen barcodes placed on the back of books, usually on the top away
from the spine.  However, we have lots of paperbacks and feel that if we put
the barcode and the date due on the back, it will cover up the summary, etc.
that the students like to read.

So, we're wondering.  is there any downside to placing it in the front? (One
we thought of is that they would be more conspicuous, and students would be
more likely to try and remove them???)

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
High School for the Humanities
New York, NY
renadeutsch@worldnet.att.net

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