Comments on: More Fun With Barcodes http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 20 May 2013 23:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Adam Lee http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-5210 Adam Lee Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:55:04 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-5210 Hey that’s a really great idea you’ve got! I think people can have fun knowing each other by reading and decoding the information encoded in QR code! Sometimes I generate QR Code free online at
http://www.businessrefinery.com/barcode-generate/csharp_barcode_generator.html
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which is quite easy to use! You can try it someday~

]]> By: Kathryn Broad http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2120 Kathryn Broad Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:12:19 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2120 You can also create a barcode through Word or any other word processing program and a freely available font like “Barcode 3 of 9″. Type an asterisk, the number or word, then another closing asterisk (i.e., *12345*), and highlight it and change the font and the size of the “type”.
The asterisks provide a start and stop character for the barcode and our scanners can then read the locally produced barcode.

]]> By: All About QR Code http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2119 All About QR Code Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:24:36 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2119 [...] Swiss Army Librarian » More Fun With Barcodes :: Brian Herzog [...]

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2118 Brian Herzog Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:31:44 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2118 @Alyssa & @Adam: Right now we’re using Horizon, which does not let us print barcodes directly (in May we’re switching to Evergreen, but that’s still in development so I’m not sure about that ILS). We do have little Dymo printers for spine labels (although, again, those don’t print directly from our ILS), and pretty soon we are going to get a special barcode printer too.

That is a drawback of the free online generators – if you want to print the barcode, the easiest thing it to waste a whole 8.5×11″ page to get it. There are scalable solutions, but it does work well enough for the price for the infrequent need.

]]> By: Adam Steele http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2117 Adam Steele Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:23:13 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2117 We use these kind of sites all the time at Kent. We actually have a special label printer that connects to the computer that will basically print anything, doesn’t have to be text. We usually use it to replace the barcodes on our headphones we check out because they get rubbed off so easily. It’s similar to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-PC-Connectable-Label-Cutter-PT-2430PC/dp/B001IKKIVW

Not sure if that one does images, but same concept.

]]> By: Alyssa http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2116 Alyssa Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:11:14 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2116 Hi there – doesn’t your OPAC software have that function built in already? We use Follett here, and I believe that there is a function that allows you to reprint barcodes based on patron numbers anyway, without having to go to a third party. I am a school librarian and have so few patrons that I just go by last name, but I’ve bumped into this feature while cataloging.

]]> By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2115 Brian Herzog Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:55:23 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2115 @Chris: ha – Subway. And I’ve stayed away from QR codes so far because I don’t know anything about them, and I know other people know lots more than me. I’m going to a workshop in June that will talk about QR code, so expect more about them then.

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]]> By: Chris http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2113 Chris Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:22:37 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2113 Actually, I’m kinda surprised you didn’t include a barcode or QR code for SAL.net :)

]]> By: Chris http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/10/more-fun-with-barcodes/#comment-2112 Chris Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:21:46 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1278#comment-2112 Chipotle.

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