[IUG] Label Printing Advice Needed

["Wittenberg, Ronda" <RWittenberg at co dot humboldt dot ca dot us>]

We are about to switch from Library Corporation's ITS to OCLC for
cataloging.  We are seeking advice on the most efficient way to print
our labels.  Currently we use a Panasonic pinfeed /tractor printer to
print a pocket and spine label.  Our pocket labels contain call number,
author, title, price and date.  The price and date are taken from a
local 993 field in our bib record.  Each cataloger creates his or her
own separate label queue.  
 
We are uncertain as to whether to print labels from OCLC, Millennium or
another label printing program.  It appears to us that in Millennium we
must queue a label from an item record rather than a bib record.  If
this is correct, it will significantly impact our current workflow,
because we create our item records after the physical processing is
complete.  
 
Our OCLC trainer thought that printing records from Millennium would be
preferable to using the OCLC label printing feature.  We would like to
know about the experiences of other libraries with label printing.
 
We have checked the archives and are on Release 2006.  Thanks.
 
 
Ronda Wittenberg
Humboldt County Library
Library Division Manager - Circulation
1313 3rd St., Eureka, CA   95501
707-269-1949
rwittenberg at co dot humboldt dot ca dot us
 


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