[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Option in Evergreen

[jeremy]

Hi Catherine,

One of the Sitka libraries undertook an inventory project using a laptop
and wireless connection to check in all the books on the shelves.  Check
in (and other circ transactions) sets the last edited date in the copy
record.  If a copy was already available there's no harm done by
checking in again, apart from status reverting to 'reshelving' for a
short period.

When finished they generated a report of items whose last edit date
preceded the start of scanning, thus identifying items that hadn't been
'seen' by EG during the inventory period.  Lost, claimed returned, and
other incorrectly marked items were identified and corrected during the
scan.

Other Sitka libraries have expressed interest in inventory projects,
we'd also love to hear of other approaches or refinements.

Cheers,
Jeremy

-- 
Jeremy Buhler
Trainer/Help Desk Specialist
Sitka Evergreen Implementation
jbuhler at sitka.bclibraries.ca


On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:31 -0500, Lemmer, Catherine wrote:
> 
> Has anyone come up with an inventory option in Evergreen?
> 
> 
> Catherine A. Lemmer 
> Evergreen Indiana Project Coordinator 
> Phone: 317.234.6536 
> Fax: 317.232.0002 
> clemmer at library.in.gov 
> More Information: www.in.gov/library/evergreen.htm 
> OPAC: http://evergreen.lib.in.us
> 
>