RE: [IUG] Barcode searching in the PAC?

["Abramson, Alicia" <AAbramson at ci dot berkeley dot ca dot us>]

At Berkeley Public Library, barcode searching is not enabled for the public OPAC.  This is important for the patron privacy reasons already mentioned and one additional one:  As a library running the CheckPoint RFID system, the RFID tags on our books are encoded with the barcode number.  By not having the barcode searchable by the public, this prevents the ability for someone to look up items via barcode searching in the unlikely event that they intercepted the RFID signal sent from the books as patrons left the building.

Alicia Abramson


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> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:20 AM
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> Subject: [IUG] Barcode searching in the PAC?
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> Have any of you enabled barcode searching in your PAC?  We've been
> considering it (we had it in our old, non-III PAC) but were warned by an
> Innovative staffer that it might enable PAC users to access patron
> records. We're on 2006, WebPAC Pro.
>
> dh
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> Daniel Hersh
> Manager of Computer & Technical Services
> Oakland Public Library
> dhersh at oaklandlibrary dot org
> (510) 238-3270
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