{"id":2876,"date":"2009-03-31T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2009-03-31T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T17:05:18","slug":"understanding-library-bar-code-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/understanding-library-bar-code-structure.html","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Library Bar Code Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseycat.org\/faq\/bar_codes.php\"><strong>Understanding the Bar Code Structure<\/strong><\/a> is a description of the structure of the standardized bar code used by many libraries for both their patrons and their materials.\u00a0 It resides on the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseycat.org\/about\/\">JerseyCat<\/a>, New Jersey&#8217;s nicely named &#8220;statewide virtual catalog and interlibrary loan system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of added interest is the inclusion of the formula for calculating the check digit.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you never need this type of information for your job, it is good to know the basic philosophy behind the bar code structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the Bar Code Structure is a description of the structure of the standardized bar code used by many libraries for both their patrons and their materials.\u00a0 It resides on the website of JerseyCat, New Jersey&#8217;s nicely named &#8220;statewide virtual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/understanding-library-bar-code-structure.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2974],"tags":[4449,4451,4450,4452,5358,4844],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-tutorials","tag-bar-code","tag-barcode","tag-check-digit","tag-jerseycat","tag-libraries","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ko","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}