Barcode

Unique identifier assigned to physical object

Table of Contents

  1. Source
  2. Guidelines
  3. Format
  4. Inheritance
  5. See Also

Source

  • Assigned by various Library departments during acquisition, cataloging, processing, or collection management workflows and stored in other systems in the Library such as Sierra and SPEC

Guidelines

  • Unless specified by corresponding material, division, or workflow documentation, it is not necessary to add a Barcode to records
    • Barcodes do not import into MMS when importing MARC records via finding aid, bnumber, or TMS import
    • Barcodes correspond to a specific physical item, so particular care is required when adding barcodes to records in MMS to ensure accuracy to the particular copy or version that was digitized

Format

Preferred structure
unique numeric identifier
Example
33333201353840

Inheritance

  • Do not set Barcodes added to collections or containers to be Inheritable

See Also