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 ==Why some institutions have chosen not to use barcodes==
 Below are some anecdotes directly from institutions who have chosen not to use barcodes on their specimens:
-*Currently at SBMNH invertebrate zoology we do not use barcodes on specimen labels. We see loan processing as the primary use of barcodes. While we do have dozens of loans per year, the added effort to integrate a barcode system into our cataloguing scheme is not worth the time/cost to implement at this time.”
+* Currently SBMNH invertebrate zoology does not use barcodes on specimen labels. "We see loan processing as the primary use of barcodes. While we do have dozens of loans per year, the added effort to integrate a barcode system into our cataloguing scheme is not worth the time/cost to implement at this time.”
 *  KU Ichthyology has chosen not to use barcodes due to the cost per unit effort being too high.  "Due to the fact that we only use barcodes for processing loans and inventories and process relatively small loans of material, the cost of adding barcodes to every jar (43,000 of them) far outweighs the gain achieved."  from Andy Bentley (abentley@ku.edu)
 ==Barcodes and GUIDs==
 Barcode labels typically contain identifiers that are ''locally'' unique, that is, unique within a collection or museum, but not ''globally'' unique, that is, unique outside of the collection.