How To Find Your Used Barcode Range for a Particular Vendor in

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First, Be Sure

1. That you are set to use Mod 10, Code 39 barcodes.2. Go to Reports– Library Reports– Barcode Lists– Select Used Barcode Numbers and look to the right. If

it says Code 39, Mod 10, 14 digits, then you can skip to number 3. If it says Follett Classic, click that. It will take you to another page. You will see Preferred Barcode Symbology and select Code 39, Mod 10. Then click Save at the top right.

Once you change the Preferred Barcode Symbology for Library Materials, you Save at the top right (not shown here).

After you change the symbology here, you can return to Reports, Library Reports, Barcode Lists, and then proceed to Step 4.

Step 4: The Guessing Game

• Because of the check digit at the end of our 14-digit barcodes, we have to make some guesses as to what the last number of the next number will be in your barcode range. So, we start with the following in the first empty box:

• 3 (for circulating item) followed by• Your SISD campus code number + a zero at the end, followed by• Your vendor code (3 digits beginning with a zero because we have not

yet reached 100), followed by • A 5-digit beginning barcode, followed by• A computer generated check digit that is made by an algorithm so we

have to guess beginning with a zero through a 9 sequentially until we get the right number.

Example: This is Dekaney’s site. So we have 3 for circulating, 0030 for Dekaney’s campus code, 024 for Gumdrop, 00000 for starting with zero for Gumdrop and guessing 0 for the last digit. And in the second box, I put 99999 for the last digit and guessing 9 for the last check digit. This gives me a complete range for Gumdrop with all possible guesses.

Then, I say Run Report. I then get an error message. So I put my cursor in the end of the first box, erase the last number, and enter a 1 instead. Run Report a second time. If I get an error message again, I erase the last number again, and enter a 2. If I get an error message, I erase and enter 3, etc., until it generates a report. Then you can see your range for that vendor.