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JBoyer |
@coffee the room |
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* pinesol |
brews and pours a cup of S.O. India Sitara, and sends it sliding down the bar to the room |
| 09:26 |
mmorgan |
Thanks JBoyer! |
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JBoyer |
i was thinking it's awfully quiet in here, maybe people need a perk up. :) |
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mmorgan |
@weather 01923 |
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pinesol |
mmorgan: Danvers, MA :: Rain :: 51F/11C | Monday: Areas of patchy fog early. Variable clouds with showers and scattered thunderstorms. High near 55F. SE winds shifting to W at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Monday Night: Mostly clear. Low 36F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph. | Updated: 23m ago |
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kmlussier |
@weather |
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pinesol |
kmlussier: Seekonk, MA :: Rain :: 53F/12C | Monday: Areas of patchy fog early. Widely scattered showers or a thunderstorm this morning. Then partly cloudy. High 56F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Monday Night: Clear skies. Low 37F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph. |
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kmlussier |
It's very sunny right now. Rain has already cleared out. |
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mmorgan |
Been pouring here for the better part of an hour, very gloomy. |
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berick |
@weather 27712 |
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pinesol |
berick: Durham, NC :: Clear :: 54F/12C | Monday: Sunny. High 63F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Monday Night: A clear sky. Low 38F. Winds light and variable. | Updated: 19m ago |
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berick |
i'll take it |
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mmorgan |
Sounds good to me! |
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terran |
Informal survey: Do your libraries use Codabar format for library cards, or something different? |
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agoben |
No, we use Code 39 for our library cards. We do have some libraries that still have Codabar item barcodes though. |
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jihpringle |
terran: we encourage our libraries to use 14 digit Codabar for library cards and items, but we have lots of older barocodes in all sorts of formats |
| 14:11 |
terran |
Thanks! |
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kmlussier |
Massachusetts libraries all use Codabar. I think CW MARS has some libraries that still have materials with an older barcode format, but, in those libraries, they have been using Codabar for all new materials for years. |
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mmorgan |
terran: Our libraries use Codabar. |
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terran |
Thanks! We use Codabar for our cards and all new items, but there are some older items that use various other formats. |
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abneiman |
terran: all (or the vast majority) of MD public libraries still use codabar 14 for cards and item barcodes |
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* JBoyer |
loses hope that the "strict barcode" option is ever going away... |
| 14:39 |
mmorgan |
JBoyer: Do you have problems with "strict barcode"? |
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JBoyer |
Since we're not all using the old CODABAR format here, the only time that option ever comes up is when someone accidentally turns it on and then they get a popup for every (or most) item they scan. |
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JBoyer |
I know I could remove it from the templates in the web client if it came to that, but we don't get the question quite often enough for that. |
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mmorgan |
That would be annoying. |
| 14:43 |
mmorgan |
Since we're almost all codabar, we find it useful. I hate to think of how many *more* precats we would have if we didn't use strict barcode. |
| 14:44 |
JBoyer |
true, since it basically still results in valid scans even if the ends aren't scanned it could be a real mess. |
| 14:44 |
JBoyer |
I used to be really into barcode symbologies. I believe my old library is still running an ILL tracker that uses a codabar generator that I built for them. |
| 14:45 |
JBoyer |
(It's certainly easier to generate the proper graphics for a non-self checking barcode! :) ) |
| 14:46 |
jeff |
we modified strict barcode in the xul client to permit our additional barcodes. |
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jeff |
it was very useful when we had an old tattle-tape checkin workstation whose new barcode head resulted in frequent partial-scans. |
| 14:47 |
jeff |
...and we had a library in the shared system that used very short barcodes. |
| 14:47 |
jeff |
so we'd end up checking in their items and generating a transit. |
| 14:47 |
jeff |
but a modified strict barcode to the rescue there. |
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mmorgan |
For those that don't use codabar, is there a check digit in your barcodes? |
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kmlussier |
@quote random |
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pinesol |
kmlussier: Quote #53: "<StephenGWills> damn! I love my job :)" (added by Dyrcona at 12:19 PM, April 16, 2013) |
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