[NHCOLL-L:1754] Re: Barcode labels

[Carolyn Rissanen]

If others don't mind, on-list replies would be of interest to us also.

Carolyn Rissanen
Registrar
Oakland Museum of California

Rich Rabeler wrote:

>The University of Michigan Herbarium is now applying pre-printed numbered
>barcode labels to some of our vascular plant specimens.  The labels are made
>from a polypropylene stock with a matte Mylar lamination and have a
>"permanent acrylic" adhesive.  While we hope that these labels will remain
>attached to the specimens for many years, there is always the chance that,
>for one reason or another, they will not.  It has been proposed that as a
>backup, the assigned number be added directly to the sheet, quite likely
>with some automatic numbering device.
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>Have other herbaria now involved in barcoding considered this situation?  If
>so, what ideas are being used?
>
>Thanks to any you reply!  Off-list would be fine.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rich Rabeler
>Collections Manager, Vascular Plants
>University of Michigan Herbarium
>3600 Varsity Drive
>Ann Arbor MI 48108-2287
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