A couple times a month our technical services librarian, Tammie Gitchel, gets two or three large boxes containing 60-100 new ...

Major publishers continue to do this, although many now also clearly list it on the back near the book’s barcode. Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers Rare Books, said that around 1830 ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. UPC barcode revolutionizes commerce in 50 years Skip to main content ...

The copy-and-paste generation has another tedium-busting digital tool in its arsenal: RefME is a book-barcode scanning app that speeds up the task of creating, formatting and managing citations ...

Just scan the ISBN barcode that’s printed on nearly every book and its front cover, title, author and other info is brought right into the app. Kids can add it to their own individual library ...

We recently acquired a flipbook from barcode artist Scott Blake. The tiny book features a portrait of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), created with the barcodes from Campbell’s soup cans. There’s also a ...

A book that discusses the merits of using simple branding tools to succeed in the digital world includes a digital marketing trick of its own. BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the ...