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BarCODE lABEL PLACEMENT
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Barcode label placement recommendation
The Massachusetts Regional Library Systems’ (MRLS) Delivery Services currently transport more than twelve millions of items each year. In order to maintain services and limit costs, the MRLS are exploring automated delivery sorting solutions.
Those solutions are still a few years away, but require equipment to scan the barcodes of materials in delivery. Placing the barcodes in a uniform location will expedite the process. Asking libraries' cooperation in uniform label placement is the first action in the projected automation of library material sorting currently under investigation by Massachusetts Regions.
To prepare for an eventual delivery solution, the CMRLS Executive Board urges member libraries to: place barcode circulation labels on the front of all new materials, in the upper left corner, parallel to the top of the item.
Libraries are asked to begin labeling new materials in this location immediately.
Libraries are NOT asked to change barcode locations retrospectively.