Marie, BarCode-1 is a good place to go to find out about bar codes. Standards, news, a bulletin board, shareware, and links are available. There are no products for sale, only unbiased information. http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/barcode1.html Libraries have a de facto standard for bar codes, at least here in the states. The 1st number is a 2 for patrons or a 3 for books. The next 4 numbers are for the institution. At one point in time some company was keeping track of them, but I think that stopped years ago. The next 8 numbers are in sequence. The last digit is a check digit. Most use codabar. Get samples for different companies since some are easier for the scanner to read than others. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & Planetary Institute Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Cormack [mailto:chris@katipo.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:53 PM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] [marie@ecoquest.co.nz: Barcode readers] I think this message just came to me, so im forwarding it to the list. ----- Forwarded message from Marie Buchler <marie@ecoquest.co.nz> ----- Dear List, We've just installed Koha for our small library. I have three basic questions: 1. Will Koha record borrowers without a barcode? If so, how? 2. If not, what kind of barcode software system have users installed? The "yellow pages" have dozens of companies. 3.What are the steps in the process of a)obtaining numbers and barcode strips b) installing them on koha's accessions catalogue Any basic help would be VERY appreciated. Marie Buchler ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha