[Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

[Bill Harms]

The Patuxent Research Refuge Herbarium (PRR) grandfathered its old 
four-digit accession numbers by adding PRR and leading zeros to the 
numbers. Now they are nine-characters long.� We just continued the 
series for newer collections.� So, accession number 2122 would be 
catalog number PRR002122

So to answer your question, we can easily cross reference the old 
accession numbers because the last four digits are integrated into the 
new number scheme.

Bill Harms
On 2/24/2021 10:06, Miller, Andrew Nicholas wrote:
> Now that we are barcoding our herbarium specimens, we are thinking 
> about dropping our historical method of assigning internal accession 
> numbers.� Is there any reason to keep both numbers.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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