Label printing practices vary by library. Just out of curiosity, why are you getting this information from a MARC file rather than the ILS? At many/most libraries, you'd need local Cuttering, item specific (e.g. volume/copy number), etc info not available in the bib record. kyle On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Tom Connolly <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Is there an open source way to format the dewey code for printing book > labels? Or can someone tell me how to isolate just the dewey number from a > marc file (I have MarcEdit; is there a better tool for this simple task?) > so it is the only field sent to the printer? (I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and > printing to a Dymo 450) Thanks > Tom Connolly > St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Naples FL > webmaster >