[Evergreen-catalogers] alternative method for labels?

[Hardy, Elaine]

Sorry I haven't responded to this before, I've been out of the office
doing a special project. Finally catching up to with some lists!

 

Do you just print spine labels? If you do you can use the handy program
from the Branch District Library in Michigan at
http://www.branchdistrictlibrary.org/professional/labels/  It does limit
the label stock you can use. We were hoping to be able to use this with
other label stock but have hit some kind of a road block with it.

 

You can also use MSWords mail merge functionality. I've used it fairly
successfully to print rare book id strips for the special project and can
give you some quick instructions if you are interested. We have some old
ones written up that I am going to try to update this week. The main thing
with it is getting mail merge itself set up for your label stock.

 

Printing spine/pocket labels is much more problematic. While some of our
libraries continue to use the Okidata printers for this, some use label
printers and receipt printers to do so fairly effectively. I am uncertain
of the quality of the labels from both of those devices. They seem to fade
easily.

 

I did make a stab at using mail merge for spine/pocket label printing but
couldn't determine how to create a mail merge file that used two different
sized labels on one sheet.

 

Elaine

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J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Ste 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304

404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax
ehardy at georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org
www.georgialibraries.org/pines




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[mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of
Cynthia Wilson
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 10:01 PM
To: Evergreen Community Catalogers
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] alternative method for labels?

 

I've just had a word document open while I'm cataloging and type the label
as I go.  I haven't heard anyone using Evergreen for labels, but maybe
someone does.... This seems to work well for us though.  

Cindy Wilson

 

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Fran Beck <Fran.Beck at linnbenton.edu>
wrote:

Hi,

 

At LBCC library, we are just beginning to use Evergreen ILS for
cataloging. We need to print pocket labels, so we traditionally used an
inkjet to prepare our labels.

 

Is anyone else printing labels to an inkjet? We would be so grateful if we
could have some guidance to set up labels. 

 

Off the top of my head I am thinking I could just use Microsoft Word to
prepare the labels?

 

Thanks.

Fran

 

 

 

Frances Beck
beckf at linnbenton.edu
Linn Benton Community College Library
(541) 917-4642 <tel:%28541%29%20917-4642> 


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Cindy Wilson
Reference Librarian

Butler Public Library
340 S. Broadway
Butler, IN 46721
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