Forgive my ignorance. When I looked up ILS I came to this paragraph that explains why: "Larger libraries use an ILS to order and acquire, receive and invoice, catalog, circulate, track and shelve materials. Smaller libraries, such as those in private homes ornon-profit organizations <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit>(like churches or synagogues, for instance), often forgo the expense and maintenance required to run an ILS, and instead use alibrary computer system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_computer_system>.^[/citation needed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>/] " source: Wikipedia We are a church with 1500 books we would like to put on our website, and thought we would use this workflow: 1. Create barcode from isbn number and print label. 2. Acquire Dewey number from Library of Congress via z39.50, and print that to a label. 3. Affix labels to the books. 4. Place marc records into a Postgresql database and allow users to search via a browser, using Ruby on Rails for the front and back ends. At the moment I'm trying to figure out step 2. I'm the church volunteer webmaster and not a coder, working with two other volunteers who happen to be career professional librarians but not programmers. If the Dewey numbers generated by the LC are insufficient, we'll tweak them over time. I just need to know how to isolate that one field to print it to our thermal label printer. Thank you. On 08/08/2014 06:12 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > 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 >>