[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item

[Trisha Cantwell Keene]

We tried this method using the 'lastediteddate' however I was not able to
create a report with my limited knowledge and our older version.

Given our large workforce of workstudy staff we were able to chose a rather
labor intensive method, which has actually worked well for us. We needed to
do a lot of quality control maintenance, and that is getting done.

We are weeding sections first.

We scanned sections into excel sheets and matched the barcodes against an
inventory report from Evergreen. We then identified the items which weren't
in the inventory list and also those missing. Again, we have fixed a lot of
problems which otherwise would go undetected.

I expect we will have our 'numbers' by Jan. 1, 2016 at the latest. Further
repair and maintenance to catalog and items will likely take longer.

We have 3.5 full time professional staff, 20-28 10 hr per week workstudy
staff (amazing people these!) and a collection of 45,000.

I hope you find this helpful.


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org> wrote:

>  Hi Scott,
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> I’m certainly no expert, but we had sort of the same question a few years
> ago.  Here’s a link to describe some methods that have been done before:
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> http://markmail.org/message/2yxyv4kwtdxb7h4s
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> It’s a transcript of a SITKA conversation where they checked-in items
> using a wireless laptop, which sets the last edited date…then ran a report
> on the system for items whose date did not match this……
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> I’ve never tried myself yet, but seems a reasonable approach…maybe other
> folks have found a better method?
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> --Tony
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> Tony Bandy
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> *From:* Open-ils-general [mailto:
> open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf Of *Scott
> Thomas
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2015 12:35 PM
> *To:* open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Inventory Item
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> We have been with EG for four months, and this is the first time this has
> come up: there does not appear to be an Inventory Item function (at least
> in 2.6.3). I am not finding a Date Inventoried field in the item record nor
> can I locate a way to inventory an item. Am I missing something obvious? If
> not, how do Evergreen libraries inventory their collections?
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> Thank you,
> Scott
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> Scott  Thomas, MLS
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> Head of Information Technologies and Technical Services
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> Scranton Public Library
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> Lackawanna County Library System
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> Email: scott at albright.org
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Trisha Cantwell Keene
Associate Director
Thorndike Library
College of the Atlantic
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