Does your library have an automated circulation system? ILS? If so, you should be able to get a report - sorted by location/collection and then by call number - of the whole collection, in one report.
Don't print to paper- save as a text file or a spreadsheet.. Put the text file (or spreadsheet) on the tablet. Then, walk through the collection with the tablet in hand marking what is there and what is missing. I'm aware of many smaller libraries that have used this approach. Ted On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:43 PM rhaus_com--- via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Dear Maxine, Yes, the tedium of a good old-fashioned shelf-read is > legendary, but unavoidable. I'm delinquent myself, partly because I don't > want to waste the paper printing it all out and I'm also the only one to do > it. Are you able to read > Dear Maxine, > > Yes, the tedium of a good old-fashioned shelf-read is legendary, but > unavoidable. I'm delinquent myself, partly because I don't want to waste > the paper printing it all out and I'm also the only one to do it. > > Are you able to read the catalog off a laptop or smaller screen? That > would save the paper. Also, if you can get volunteers, even teenagers, to > help -- maybe split up the job among several people -- then it wouldn't be > so onerous. > > Hope that helps. > > > Rachel Haus > Library Director > Congregation of Moses Fisher Library > Kalamazoo MI > > > On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 03:12:54 PM EDT, Maxine Wolfson via Hasafran > <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > > > How do you conduct a physical inventory of a library? Print out the > entire catalog, and check off what books are on the shelf, out on loan or > just plain missing? This has not been done in the last 9 years that I've > been involved with the > How do you conduct a physical inventory of a library? Print out the > entire catalog, and check off what books are on the shelf, out on loan or > just plain missing? This has not been done in the last 9 years that I've > been involved with the library, and keep running into books that are in the > catalog and not on the shelves. > Thanks for any recommendations, suggestion, input or other ideas you may > have. 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