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A question that we at UEA have been working on a lot lately! Our LMS, Aleph, has (always had) such a facility. The baseline setup has limitations, so the company, Ex Libris, also supply add-ons with some greater flexibility, and in the past we have used one such add-on, called LABEL_PRINT, to work with Aleph to print spine labels to Dymo label printers (technical details, from documentation of several years ago, copied below). We scan barcodes into a function in Aleph, and it prints on Dymo exactly as we want. Recently, we have been looking at alternatives, because Aleph cannot parse (split onto new lines) LC classmarks as we want it to now that we have moved to strict LC style. After some difficulties, we are planning to use 'plain' Aleph (no add-ons), but need to do some more changes to the Aleph print templates before it works properly. This isn't a major issue for us because most stock is now supplied shelf-ready, and until this works, our staff are just using the Dymos as independent printers. HTH. Best wishes, Alan Suppliers web address is http://www.shopbrodart.com We use the LabelWriter 330 Turbo which will print 30 labels a minute. The labels are 1 inch x 1 1/2inch - Brodart code 30 319 002 Economic label protectors code 55 276 002 Superbond label protectors code 55 775 001 Prices are all in the catalogue & online. ============================== Mr A.V. Exelby, Systems/Databases Librarian. The Library, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel.: 01603 592432 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Information Services ================================ "Man, who'd have thought being a librarian could be so tough" Seamus Harper, in 'Harper 2.0', "Andromeda". >-----Original Message----- >From: A general Library and Information Science list for news >and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >HARDWICK, Ruth >Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:16 AM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Are Library Systems able to print spine labels? > >Hi - > >Please forgive my ignorance, but are new and new-ish Library >Management Systems able to generate spine labels for library >stock? Or are cataloguers still having to rely on separate >printers for (Dewey) spine labels? > >With many thanks for any information > >Ruth Hardwick > >Ruth Hardwick >Senior Assistant Librarian, Cataloguing >House of Lords Library >Tel: 020 7219 6201 >Fax: 020 7219 6396 > > > > > ________________________________ >UK Parliament Disclaimer: >This e-mail is confidential to the intended recipient. If you >have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete >it from your system. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or >copying is not permitted. This e-mail has been checked for >viruses, but no liability is accepted for any damage caused by >any virus transmitted by this e-mail. >