[Publib] Inventorying with card shelf lists

[Lisa Cavalear]

Michelle,
During the past few years, we took the card catalog out of our library, and some fought to keep the cards in the shelflisting for archival and recon purposes.
Lisa

"Styer, C. Michelle" <alford4 at marshall.edu> wrote: During our barcoding project in the 90's, we took drawers into the stacks, paper clipped missing items the same as Phalbe Henriksen described, and pulled low circulation duplicates for discard.  The only problem I saw with this was that it took an incredibly long time to perform a full inventory.  This was the last inventory that was performed for our library before (and unfortunately not since) we split our main collection into two buildings (one for older, less used items, & one for newer items and technology).  We've been discussing ways to perform an inventory, but having changed to an all digital catalog, we are finding the prospect both daunting and potentially complicated.  Some vague discussion has been brought up about the possibility of moving to RFID tags or looking into the Millennium III inventory module, but so far, cost and manpower make the idea of inventory prohibitive.  I would love to here how other
 libraries have accomplished cardless inventory.


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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:44:39 -0400
From: Phalbe Henriksen 

Subject: RE: [Publib] Inventorying with card shelf lists
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We did it just slightly different. We took an entire drawer out to
the shelves, so no cards were taken out of the drawers. There were
only two people in Tech Services (and then three), so each one would
work with someone from another dept, so there could be three teams
working at the same time.

We would put paper clips on the cards if the book wasn't there. If we
had more than one book per card, say, c.1, c.2, and c.3, we put the
date beside each copy, and then if one copy wasn't on the shelf, it
got a paper clip.

At the end of this process, the Tech Services staff could then do all
the other stuff -- the big part of the physical work having been done.

Phalbe Henriksen


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