Hi everyone; The Camden Twp. Library is considering the idea of moving to plastic patron library cards with keytags (currently we use handwritten paper cards). The switch from paper to plastic could be pretty simple, but we are also toying with the idea of changing the format of our patron barcodes. Right now, our patrons receive a barcode, which is used for local checkouts and MeLCat. Then they have to modify the barcode to use our Overdrive group, and then modify the barcode yet again to use our RBDigital/Zinio group. I have already contacted MeLCat, Overdrive & RBDigital to find out how difficult this process may be - all say it is fairly easy. So my questions to you are: 1. Has anyone else faced this situation? If so, what did you decide to do? 2. What company did you use to purchase your plastic cards/keytags? 3. What procedure did you use to switch your patron barcodes to the new numbers? 4. Pros & Cons to changing patron barcodes? Any suggestions, comments, etc. will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Laura Orlowski, director Camden Twp. Library camden@monroe.lib.mi.us