[CALIBK12] Textbook Automation - barcoding teacher's materials

[David Bogardus]

1. Destiny promotes District-wide circulation and sharing of resources. That
would totally be undone by site barcodes. We now purchase barcodes from one
vendor using one range of numbers and our warehouse puts them on the books
for us. Sooner or later you will probably go to centralizing this process.
In the meantime, it is easier to grab a stack of barcodes to give to a
school without worrying about a site range. Destiny assigns the barcode
ranges to the site when the copies are added so there is no value in site
specific barcode ranges. 
 
2. Teacher materials are not what they use to be. It has gone beyond
blackline masters and transparencies! We create a record for every piece of
supplemental material in the supplements tab "behind" the student edition
master record. This way you provide sites with future ordering and
replacement information. You can also create a kit for materials that are
bundled together that sites find too cumbersome to barcode separately. We
place all of the contents that are going in the kit in the notes field so
when it is being checked in, you can see if all of the pieces are there.
These items are usually bundled by the publisher and given a separate
barcode number anyway. That also provides future ordering information. When
in doubt, use the publisher order form to create your records so Destiny
mirrors your original purchases. You may also want to include gratis
policies in your consumable materials note fields. (including how many free
copies sites receive each year based on your initial orders and PO #s)
 
You made a good decision to go with Destiny.
David Bogardus
Teacher Specialist-Instructional Materials
Pomona Unified School District 

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[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Lori Lim
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:34 AM
To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIBK12] Textbook Automation - barcoding teacher's materials


Happy Spring all!

I need to gather some information about textbook automation. Next year, my
district will be implementing Destiny Textbook Manager. For those of you who
use textbook automation, can you please give advice on the following
questions so I can advise my director:

1.  I noticed some districts assign a barcode range for each school. Why
would this be a good practice? Why did you choose this rather than just
ordering sequential barcodes and dolling them out to the various schools?

2.  What teacher materials did you barcode? I can see why TE's need to be
barcoded, but what about the thousands of little books, assessment
materials, BLM's, CD's, etc that come in the teacher's resource materials?
(you know, the few they lose and want replaced as well as the ones they
never touch...or even realize they have)

Thank you for any advice you can give me!
Lori

Lori Lim
Library Media Teacher
Evergreen School District
San Jose, CA





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