Re: Internal Use counts for nonbarcoded items

[Claudia Chester <cchester@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Although we never implemented it, we at one time had a plan to have a
notebook of sheets with a barcode for each periodical title and wand the
barcode each time the title was used. Does that help?

At 03:00 PM 8/13/2001 -0400, Hendrickson, Doris M wrote:
>We're interested in exploring the possibility of collecting information
>about in-library use of our periodicals. The obvious place to record
>this information is in one of the internal use fields of the item
>record.  However, our periodical issues are not barcoded, and it seems
>that it's necessary to use either a barcode or an item record number in
>order to increment the internal use counts in an item record.
>
>Has anyone successfully recorded internal usage for collections that
>aren't barcoded?  I'd be grateful for any ideas, and if you send them to
>me I'd be glad to summarize for the list.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Doris Hendrickson        
>dhendric@xxxxxxxxxx
>Assistant University Librarian
>Radford University Library
>Radford VA 24142
>
>voice: 540-831-5687      
>fax:   540-831-6138
> 
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Claudia Chester
Technical Services Librarian
Fisher Library
John F. Kennedy University
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Orinda, CA 94563

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