Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier
Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com [😊] Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact: https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/ Please let me know if they wont do it anymore. -Steve ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com [😊] Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
Hi Everyone – since we are doing the same thing here in Lakeland with a new member library. I called the 1-800 listed on the DALNET website. I got a library helpdesk located in Toronto, Canada and they are not a “national barcode registry”. She had already received one phone call this morning, I was her second. I told her I would post to this listserv and let you know that that number has an error or no longer exists and has been assigned elsewhere. Thanks everyone. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Steven Bowers Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:41 AM To: T.A. Cutler Memorial Library; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact: https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/ Please let me know if they wont do it anymore. -Steve _____ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com ?? Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
Thanks for confirming. I will try to track down a new number, if one still exists! I'll let everyone know. -Steve ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon <sheryl@llcoop.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:23 AM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hi Everyone - since we are doing the same thing here in Lakeland with a new member library. I called the 1-800 listed on the DALNET website. I got a library helpdesk located in Toronto, Canada and they are not a "national barcode registry". She had already received one phone call this morning, I was her second. I told her I would post to this listserv and let you know that that number has an error or no longer exists and has been assigned elsewhere. Thanks everyone. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Steven Bowers Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:41 AM To: T.A. Cutler Memorial Library; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact: https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/ Please let me know if they wont do it anymore. -Steve ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org>> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com<mailto:CutlerLibrary@live.com>> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com<mailto:cutlerlibrary@live.com> [??] Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
I went searching and found this reference on the ALA website: http://www.ala.org/tools/bar-codes-libraries: Question: Is there a standard library barcode identification system? Answer: The short answer is "no". There are many barcode <http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Bar_Codes> registries, including one called the "National Barcode Registry". However, this registry only contains a fraction of all library barcodes in the United States and Canada, mostly those libraries that formerly used a system called GEAC, which is now maintained by Infor. You can still obtain a new, unique prefix assignment from this company, but you need to call them, as the service is not available online. There are several types of barcodes <http://www.makebarcode.com/specs/speclist.html> in use in libraries, as well as RFID <http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/RFID> . In most libraries, the first digit of the barcode indicates whether the code is for a patron or an item. The next4 digits are the library identifier. Since there are only 9,999 variations to this 4 digit ID, and there are many more libraries than that in the US alone, there is bound to be some overlap of these codes. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org From: Steven Bowers [mailto:sbowers@wayne.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:25 AM To: LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Thanks for confirming. I will try to track down a new number, if one still exists! I'll let everyone know. -Steve _____ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon <sheryl@llcoop.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:23 AM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hi Everyone - since we are doing the same thing here in Lakeland with a new member library. I called the 1-800 listed on the DALNET website. I got a library helpdesk located in Toronto, Canada and they are not a "national barcode registry". She had already received one phone call this morning, I was her second. I told her I would post to this listserv and let you know that that number has an error or no longer exists and has been assigned elsewhere. Thanks everyone. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Steven Bowers Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:41 AM To: T.A. Cutler Memorial Library; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact: https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/ Please let me know if they wont do it anymore. -Steve _____ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com ?? Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
Thanks. I have an email out to Infor. Looks like they stopped a couple years ago. Seeing if they have interest in letting us take over, for those that do want to register. There are the limits, as noted below. -Steve ________________________________ From: LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon <sheryl@llcoop.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:32 AM To: Steven Bowers; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: RE: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier I went searching and found this reference on the ALA website: http://www.ala.org/tools/bar-codes-libraries: Question: Is there a standard library barcode identification system? Answer: The short answer is "no". There are many barcode<http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Bar_Codes> registries, including one called the "National Barcode Registry". However, this registry only contains a fraction of all library barcodes in the United States and Canada, mostly those libraries that formerly used a system called GEAC, which is now maintained by Infor. You can still obtain a new, unique prefix assignment from this company, but you need to call them, as the service is not available online. There are several types of barcodes<http://www.makebarcode.com/specs/speclist.html> in use in libraries, as well as RFID<http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/RFID>. In most libraries, the first digit of the barcode indicates whether the code is for a patron or an item. The next4 digits are the library identifier. Since there are only 9,999 variations to this 4 digit ID, and there are many more libraries than that in the US alone, there is bound to be some overlap of these codes. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org From: Steven Bowers [mailto:sbowers@wayne.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:25 AM To: LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon; michlib-l@mcls.org Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Thanks for confirming. I will try to track down a new number, if one still exists! I'll let everyone know. -Steve ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org>> on behalf of LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon <sheryl@llcoop.org<mailto:sheryl@llcoop.org>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:23 AM To: michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hi Everyone – since we are doing the same thing here in Lakeland with a new member library. I called the 1-800 listed on the DALNET website. I got a library helpdesk located in Toronto, Canada and they are not a “national barcode registry”. She had already received one phone call this morning, I was her second. I told her I would post to this listserv and let you know that that number has an error or no longer exists and has been assigned elsewhere. Thanks everyone. Sheryl VanderWagen ILS Manager Lakeland Library Cooperative 4138 3 Mile Rd NW Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134 (616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax) (616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line) sheryl@llcoop.org<mailto:sheryl@llcoop.org> From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Steven Bowers Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:41 AM To: T.A. Cutler Memorial Library; michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact: https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/ Please let me know if they wont do it anymore. -Steve ________________________________ From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org>> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com<mailto:CutlerLibrary@live.com>> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier Hello, We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode. I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code: 5141 2077 4380 If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com<mailto:cutlerlibrary@live.com> [??] Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information. Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use? Thank you very much! Jessica Little Library Director T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880 (989) 681-5141
From ALA: Bar Codes in Libraries *Question: *Is there a standard library barcode identification system? *Answer*: The short answer is "no". There are many barcode <http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/Bar_Codes> registries, including one called the "National Barcode Registry". However, this registry only contains a fraction of all library barcodes in the United States and Canada, mostly those libraries that formerly used a system called GEAC, which is now maintained by Infor. You can still obtain a new, unique prefix assignment from this company, but you need to call them, as the service is not available online. There are several types of barcodes <http://www.makebarcode.com/specs/speclist.html> in use in libraries, as well as RFID <http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php/RFID>. In most libraries, the first digit of the barcode indicates whether the code is for a patron or an item. The next4 digits are the library identifier. Since there are only 9,999 variations to this 4 digit ID, and there are many more libraries than that in the US alone, there is bound to be some overlap of these codes. Helen Benzonia Public Library On 1/17/2017 10:25 AM, Steven Bowers wrote:
Thanks for confirming. I will try to track down a new number, if one still exists! I'll let everyone know.
-Steve
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of LLC Sheryl Vanderwagon <sheryl@llcoop.org> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:23 AM *To:* michlib-l@mcls.org *Subject:* Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier
Hi Everyone – since we are doing the same thing here in Lakeland with a new member library. I called the 1-800 listed on the DALNET website. I got a library helpdesk located in Toronto, Canada and they are not a “national barcode registry”. She had already received one phone call this morning, I was her second. I told her I would post to this listserv and let you know that that number has an error or no longer exists and has been assigned elsewhere.
Thanks everyone.
Sheryl VanderWagen
ILS Manager
Lakeland Library Cooperative
4138 3 Mile Rd NW
Grand Rapids MI 49534-1134
(616)559-5253 x210 (Phone) 616-559-4329 (Fax)
(616)559-9111 (Lakeland Help Line)
sheryl@llcoop.org
*From:*michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] *On Behalf Of *Steven Bowers *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:41 AM *To:* T.A. Cutler Memorial Library; michlib-l@mcls.org *Subject:* Re: [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier
Did the sponsoring company tell you there is no longer a national registry? I hope there still is. Here is the information we last had for contact:
https://dalnetconsortium.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/national-barcode-registry/
Please let me know if they wont do it anymore.
-Steve
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*From:*michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org <mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org>> on behalf of T.A. Cutler Memorial Library <CutlerLibrary@live.com <mailto:CutlerLibrary@live.com>> *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2017 3:07 PM *To:* michlib-l@mcls.org <mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> *Subject:* [Michlib-l] Library Unique 4-Digit Identifier
Hello,
We are planning to migrate from a 5- to 7-digit alpha-numeric barcode for patron accounts and item records to the standard 14-digit numeric barcode.
I'm hoping to find a unique (or relatively unique) 4-digit identifier. Since I've been told there isn't a national registry for this anymore, I thought I'd just check with all of you on the listserv whether your library uses any of the following three combinations as your library's code:
5141
2077
4380
If you use one of those four (or know a library that does), please let me know. Please reply off-list to cutlerlibrary@live.com <mailto:cutlerlibrary@live.com> ��
Also, if you have a supplier you love for barcodes/library cards, could you please share that information.
Lastly, do you use a check-digit in your barcode and if so, which symbology do you use?
Thank you very much!
Jessica Little
Library Director
T.A. Cutler Memorial Library 312 Michigan Ave. Saint Louis, Michigan 48880
(989) 681-5141
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