Re: [ha-Safran] How to take an Inventory

2023-04-26 Thread Ted Koppel via Hasafran 
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

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> 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
>  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.  This will be my summer project.
>
> Maxine Wolfson  -  Rosen Library
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Re: [ha-Safran] How to take an Inventory

2023-04-25 Thread rhaus_com--- via Hasafran 
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 HausLibrary DirectorCongregation of Moses Fisher LibraryKalamazoo MI 

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  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 theHow 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.  This will be my summer project.
Maxine Wolfson  -  Rosen 
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[ha-Safran] How to take an Inventory

2023-04-25 Thread Maxine Wolfson via Hasafran 
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.  This will be my summer project.

Maxine Wolfson  -  Rosen Library
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