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I'm fascinated by Susan Allen's locket method of barcoding ["we attach
a 'locket' carrying a call number label on one side and a barcode on
the other to a non-acidic, cotton ribbon which is then laid in each
book. The ribbon is cut slightly longer than the height of the book so
that the 'locket' hangs outside over the spine of the book for easy
reading"]. Does this leave the locket dangling from the head of the
spine, or dangling off the bottom of the shelf. In general, have you
found this a satisfactory system, ie if you had it to do over again,
would you continue to use it, or go for a slip-in-the-book approach?
-Terry Belanger
Columbia University School of Library Service