BarCodes

July 20, 2011 Incident # 12514880 - Nick WE CANNOT USE THE SYMBOLOGIES BELOW: USE THESE INSTEAD:

3 1 0 00 equipment ordered 7/2011 - 3100110000001 - 3100110001001 3 1 2 PLE book room 3 1 1 PLE library 3 1 3 PLE Equipment 3 0 1 HZN library 3 0 2 HZN book room 3 0 3 HZN equipment 3 2 1 ASA library 3 2 2 ASA other 3 2 3 ASA equipment 3 3 1 PHS library 3 3 2 PHS other 3 3 3 PHS equipment

first digit (3) = library material seond digit = site location 1=PLE 0=HZN 2=ASA 3=PHS These numbers are based on Destiny location codes 101=PLE 100=HZN 102=ASA 103=PHS third digit = sublocation 0 = equipment 1 = library 2 = book room 3 = equipment fourth and fifth digit = vendor 11 = dummy barcodes from Follett 22 = books ordered from Follett Library Resources 33 = books ordered from Rainbow books 44 = books ordered from Mackin 55 = general 66 = magazines

The reason for this is because of how Destiny "sees" barcodes in the site cofiguration. You will need to set up each site with a new barcode symbologies.

__Site__ ONCE THIS IS CHANGED YOU MAY NOT USE BAR CODES WITH LESS THAN 13 DIGITS! Throw the old ones out. - Actually they seem to work even after the 13-digit changeorver. Discuss with district librarians and with Destiny Support if having Destiny assign barcode numbers. I discovered this information after I ordered barcodes for the equipment. Unfortunately that means that the equipment won't follow this exactly - it will be missing the dummy barcode vendor number, but at least the location code will be correct.
 * Go to Site Configuration.
 * Click on Circulation //under// the green bar.
 * Scroll down to Preferred Barcode Symbologies
 * Change library materials to "Generic code 39"
 * Change fixed characters to 3X (X=your site location)
 * Change total length to 13
 * Save