Cynthia Harrison said:
> We tried using the ean barcodes from the dust jackets or that
> were printed on the book as barcodes in our collection. It
> worked fine until someone tried to check in a public library
> book in place of the one they had checked out from us.
You would not want to use the ean for checkout, of course. But the ean
is perfectly usable for finding the right bib record while cataloging.
We use it all the time in Acquisitions and Cataloging.