Good morning,

My curriculum director asked me to organize and catalog the curriculum library this summer, and I'm looking to order barcodes.  I thought it would be an easy process, but when I went to fill out the order form I realized I have lots of questions that I can't answer.

The last time barcodes were ordered was 2006 from Bibliomation, which was several media specialists ago.  I'm not sure what the final barcode number is, so I can't start from there. We use Destiny Follett for our catalog. I'm looking to order 1000 single barcodes to put on books from TLS (The Library Store.). Here are my questions-

- Do I use the 4 digit library identifier?
- Do I just pick a random start/end number (800000-900000) that I know hasn't been used?
-  Barcode format? Code39, Codabar, Follett Style "Interleaved 2 of 5", Mod-43, Mod-10
- Do I need a check digit?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to email me off list. 

Tenley




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Tenley Stoltz
Library Media Specialist
Somers High School

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