Inventory Control
I survived scanning the collection with a room temperature of 30+ degrees. Actually that's cheaper than going to the gym!
I did most of the scanning on the first week which is a good thing as I did have to cover reception a few times. We are short of staff at the moment. However, it is I believe a bad thing not to process errors as you go along because then the tasks seems insurmontable then: a lot of excel files to go through.
This year I also ran the not inventoried report for both collections I was scanning (DVD, reference). This allows me to correct many mistakes, such as "on-the-fly" items that I had forgotten to delete. Oops.
I also did some weeding of old class textbooks no longer used by the Tutors of the Language Centre.
Doing the not inventoried report for the reference collection allows me to see all items processed as reference that are not part of the reference collection per se, for example all the course books used in the Language Centre's classes. Setting them as reference means that the students cannot borrow them. Now with the new list of class textbooks for next year, I can make sure that all of them are set as reference. I can also reprocess textbooks no longer into the reading list as lending for students. And this is what I'm going to do now!
I did most of the scanning on the first week which is a good thing as I did have to cover reception a few times. We are short of staff at the moment. However, it is I believe a bad thing not to process errors as you go along because then the tasks seems insurmontable then: a lot of excel files to go through.
This year I also ran the not inventoried report for both collections I was scanning (DVD, reference). This allows me to correct many mistakes, such as "on-the-fly" items that I had forgotten to delete. Oops.
I also did some weeding of old class textbooks no longer used by the Tutors of the Language Centre.
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| Bye bye old books, you served us well! |
Doing the not inventoried report for the reference collection allows me to see all items processed as reference that are not part of the reference collection per se, for example all the course books used in the Language Centre's classes. Setting them as reference means that the students cannot borrow them. Now with the new list of class textbooks for next year, I can make sure that all of them are set as reference. I can also reprocess textbooks no longer into the reading list as lending for students. And this is what I'm going to do now!
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