Smart and Smarter

Whether you have seven thousand or seven hundred thousand items in your collection, the problems associated with barcod-ing and with database clean-up remain the same. In 1992, the staff at the University of Arkansas Libraries began a barcoding project. Since the initial project, staff have initiated major cleanup projects to make the catalog more accurate. This article discusses the process of planning and implementing a smart barcoding project and provides details on the subsequent clean-up of an on-line database.