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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>There
are times when having the same barcode assigned to different records might be
useful.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>Here
at the Lunar and Planetary Institute I create a catalog record for special
issues of journals, an analytic. For example, a recent issue of Astrophysics and
Space Science was a special issue with the title Magnetic fields and star
formation : theory versus observations. I created a separate catalog record for
that, however, it will be bound in a volume with other issues of and given a
barcode for the bound volume. It is very possible there may be another special
issue in that bound volume. All those bib records would be tied to the one
volume on the shelf with the one bar code. Presently, I do not assign a bar code
to the analytic records. It would be nice to assign the same one to all and
then our users could see if the special issue was on the shelf or not. Now they
have to do another search on the title of the journal and check
there.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>When
there is such a parent-child relationship between items it is possible to use
the same barcode for multiple bibliographic records.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=635365815-23122004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004>Sincerely,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>David
Bigwood</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004><A
href="mailto:bigwood@lpi.usra.edu">bigwood@lpi.usra.edu</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004>Lunar
& Planetary Institute</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=635365815-23122004><A
href="http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml">http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Albert P. Calame<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 22, 2004
10:24 PM<BR><B>To:</B> BWS Johnson; koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re: [Koha] Barcode quandry</FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
class=635365815-23122004> </SPAN><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2> <FONT size=3> I agree, of course, that the
system should <STRONG><U>NEVER</U></STRONG> accept duplicate barcodes. They
must be unique to the item they identify. If you must use, or are using a
numeric only barcode symbology, then you should set different numeric prefixes
to the ranges of numbers that you will use on the barcodes for
different holding branches or libraries.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Best wishes to all
for a happy holiday season from the frozen North!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Albert
Calame</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT>Librarian at
Large </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Library Management
Consultant</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT size=3>Montreal,
Canada</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> 514-745-3424</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT><A
href="mailto:albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca">albert.p.calame@sympatico.ca</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mhelman@illinoisalumni.org
href="mailto:mhelman@illinoisalumni.org">BWS Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Koha] Barcode quandry</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Salve!<BR><BR>My .02 on having Koha accept two same barcodes
- bad pie! That's one of the things I intentionally checked for when I
installed. Perhaps there's a way to do a feature so that folks that don't
want barcodes can shut it off, but I shudder to think at the possible
multiple barcode errors that might haunt me later. I know it will catch
multiple borrower ids in its own comma'd way, and I know that it used to
yell at me when I used the same barcode, which I liked.<BR><BR>As far as
what you might be able to do about your branches - talk to your vendor and
consortium about adding initial digits to distinguish between the branch and
the main library. There might be a way to cleverly do this retrospectively.
I know that there was a good old function key programmed at my old library,
and I usually keep the 304540000 part of my barcode in a notepad file for
ease of cutting and pasting. I can't think of any ILS off of the top of my
head that wouldn't have the barcode function also as an
identifier.<BR><BR>Brooke @ Hinsdale </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>