[PADG:743] Re: barcodes on covers

[Sue Davis <sue.davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy,

We have placed barcodes on the exterior back cover parallel to the 
upper spine for years.  Very few, if any, have fallen off or have 
worn away.  A few may have been "helped" off by industrious 
students.  The same rule applies to both hard cover and paperbacks 
volumes.  Occasionally the barcode placement may cover some 
information, so the barcode may be moved up or down or 
perpendicular to accommodate the text.  Items sent to our storage 
facility must have barcodes on the outside, whether it's a box 
containing a fragile item or the item itself.  Since we've been 
following this same practice for our stacks for 20 (?) years, it 
didn't require any processing change for the storage facility. 
Seems to be working okay.

--On Monday, November 14, 2005 9:00 AM -0500 Andrew Hart 
<ashart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> UNC-Chapel Hill may be moving materials to a high-density
> shelving facility that requires a barcode on the outside of every
> book cover. To reduce the amount of re-barcoding in the future,
> we also have a proposal on the table for putting barcodes on the
> exterior of new books going into open stacks. If your library has
> exterior barcodes, please comment on any associated problems you
> have observed. If your library has recently considered this
> practice, I would also be interested in some of the arguments,
> pro and con, and what you decided to do.
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> --
> Andrew Hart
> Preservation Librarian
> CB#3910, Davis Library
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
> Tel. 919-962-8047
> Fax 919-962-4450
> Email: ashart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Sue Davis
Vanderbilt University Library
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Nashville, TN  37240
Email: sue.davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx