Joyce,

   We are a medium sized public college library with 120-140,000 bound
volumes which are not barcoded (do not circulate) but for which we
are about to add barcodes and create items for them in our periodical
catalog records for remote storage.

   The reason: we are about to start planning on an ARS (Automated
Storage and Retrieval system) for our campus. Everything which goes
into the ARS MUST have a barcode since the books/volumes do not go
into the storage bins in any order and are located and retrieved
though the barcode link.

   We estimate this project will take 1-3 years, depending on how many
people will be recruited/hired to work on it.  This involves 3 major
steps:
   1.) Dusting of the volumes prior to barcoding;
   2.) Placing barcodes on the OUTSIDE of each volume, and writing the
last 3 digits of the barcode on top of each volume (for
identification purposes for retrieval from the storage bins)
   3.) updating the cataloged periodicals records to add items for
each barcoded volume.

We plan on adding the item records into the catalog using a laptop
and a barcode reader in the stacks, rather than move the volumes out
of and then back into, the stacks.  Needless to say, this is a very
labor-intensive project.

-- Mitch

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>>  On 07/31/03 Joyce Radcliff wrote:
Does anyone barcode their bound journals even though they're not
checked out? If so, for what reason? >>>>

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