--- Forwarded Message from Christopher Stormer <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:19:17 -0500 >From: Christopher Stormer <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: Language Learning Center >User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >CC: [log in to unmask] >Subject: RE: barcode & catalog system for Macs Michael-- We use an open source web-based system for cataloging and lending called "Open Media Collectors Database" (http://opendb.iamvegan.net ) -- it runs on PHP with a MySQL backend, and has the nice advantage of allowing patrons to search the catalog online. For our purposes, the code required a bunch of tweaking from the vanilla install, but in the end it has worked great for us for almost a year. You can see our customizations at: http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/llc/library I'd be happy to share the customizations-- with the caveat that the changes I made are VERY kludgey, and quite possibly only work well in our environment. :-) For making labels, we just use Word with a free (for educational use) bar code font from: http://www.idautomation.com/fonts/free/ We did have more specialized bar code label printing software, but just using the font and making our out label templates in word is a lot easier for us to manage. Plus, we can just buy regular old avery labels of any size/shape and use those on a laser printer. Regular labels combined with a protective layer of clear packing tape seem to do the trick for us. The font is TTF so should work on a Mac as well. Cheers, Chris -- --------------------------------- Christopher Stormer Director, Language Learning Center Saint Louis University Ritter Hall 325 220 North Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63103 tel. (314) 977-3644 fax. (314) 977-1495 [log in to unmask] http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages --------------------------------- *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************