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
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
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
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