[LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

[Tammy Siebenberg]

Our president refused to have the barcodes printed on the cards because of aesthetics.

Tammy R. Siebenberg, MLIS
Director - Library & Media Services
Yakima Valley College<http://www.yvcc.edu/>
Yakima, WA  98902
509.574.4984

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Fuhrman, Tim
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

We make the cards here in the library on our campus and I actually design them.  Ours have both a magstrip and barcode.  We use the barcode here in the library but there are magstrip readers all over campus as we track student use of services with them.

It shouldn't be hard to include a barcode in the design although I would imagine it wouldn't be hard to add a magstrip reader to use with Alma either.

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Tim Fuhrman
Director of Library Resources
& eLearning
Big Bend Community College
timf at bigbend.edu<mailto:timf at bigbend.edu>

509.793.2350
877.745.1212
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Big Bend Community College * 7662 Chanute Street NE * Moses Lake, WA 98837-3299



From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Mindy Coslor
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

I am grateful that they asked me.  I had written several weeks ago asking if they would consider printing a barcode of the student ID directly on the student ID cards.  I suspect they hadn't considered the impact of a new card printer on the library up to that point and I didn't realize they were studying a new card printing system.  I'm glad we were not caught off guard.

Dr. Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
360.416.7761

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Tammy Siebenberg
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

You are welcome.  We were very upset when the new ID cards came out and no longer had barcodes on them.  Tech Services came to the rescue with the card readers and it is working well.

Tammy R. Siebenberg, MLIS
Director - Library & Media Services
Yakima Valley College<http://www.yvcc.edu/>
Yakima, WA  98902
509.574.4984

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Mindy Coslor
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

Thanks, Tammy.  So far, you are the only one who indicated they are using a mag stripe.  It is helpful to know what we need to do to make it work.

Dr. Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
360.416.7761

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Tammy Siebenberg
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards

We use mag strips on our new student ID cards and have student ID numbers as our primary identifier in Alma.  Attached to each of our circulation stations is a card reader that we swipe the cards through.  We did have to have our Tech Services people do a bit of tinkering with the card reader to prevent extra characters from appearing at the beginning and end of the ID numbers.  You would also want to make sure a carriage return code is included so you don't have to hit enter after swiping the card.

Tammy

Tammy R. Siebenberg, MLIS
Director - Library & Media Services
Yakima Valley College<http://www.yvcc.edu/>
Yakima, WA  98902
509.574.4984

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Mindy Coslor
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:01 AM
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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] Mag strips on student ID cards


Hi all,



Our registration office is considering switching to a student ID machine that encodes the student ID into a mag strip.  Is anyone using a mag strip card with ALMA?  Our practice over the last 15 years has been to attach a pre-printed barcode to the student ID.  We'd like to get away from that.



Thanks!

Mindy



Mindy Coslor, Ph.D.

Director of Library Services

Skagit Valley College

360.416.7761

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