Information Technology
At one time, borrower's cards used at Dayton Metro Library use the nearly-40 year old Codabar barcode format, with the symbol 'A' preceding and following the account number in the barcode proper. As of at least early 2000s, all cards issued begin with the sequence 10060 followed by 8 digits.
As of 2012, the Dayton Metro Library's catalogue operates under the Polaris system, but had previously used Horizon from 2003 onwards, which was no longer offering software updates. Prior to this, it had used DRA from 1985.
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