Today I changed the processing specs from my main library book vendor, who shall not be named. The previous librarian always ordered the barcodes attached, and being new, I didn’t want to mess with that. But look.
I mean really.
In a season of schools refusing to show the President’s back-to-school speech, vicious oppositional politicking, and hate radio, this seems a little like a political statement.
Surely the person who pasted on this barcode was a human being, maybe even an American. Sometimes this company sends a polite little note rubber-banded together with the unattached barcode, telling you that if they attached the barcode it would cover up something important.
But not on this book.
So I had to fix it. Wasn’t easy; it took a label scraper and a lot of Goo Gone.
After this I emailed the book jobber and told them to send the barcodes unattached from now on. My tiny contribution to world peace.
