Re: GEN: Placement of barcodes on front cover?

["S. Griffith" <afn11720@AFN.ORG>]

I do inventory with a hand scanner, the easiest bar codes to scan are on
the top back right side, I just pull the book out a few inches and scan

Thanks for writing,
Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist, Mulberry Middle School
http://schools.polk.net/mms
afn11720@afn.org

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everyone - Bill Cosby

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Rena Deutsch wrote:

> 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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