Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...school librarian might be horrified by the fact that the books are not organized by call numbers but by a criteria as arbitrary as size. The key identifier is the bar code, which, unlike a call number, bears no relation to the contents of the book...
...imagine," Lane says, "that you're a book, and your library has slapped a bar code right in the middle of your forehead and sent you out here...
...Actually," he says, "the bar code would be over your left eyebrow...
...depository, a book's bar code is (almost) all that matters...
...time it gets out here, all we are dealing with is the bar code," Schneiter says. "All materials transferred to the [depository] are handled equally carefully, it doesn't really matter what the bar code is attached...