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<p>Currently we are doing our first inventory in 20+ years, and most of the work is being done out of my department, Public Services. Student workers do the actual scanning, and I train and supervise. It mostly just requires attention to detail.</p>
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<p>Books with errors (not in system, system record doesn't match book on hand, bad barcodes, books in the wrong section, several other types) are brought down to me and I review them.</p>
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<p>As we finish a section, I also print out a list of all the items in that section which were not scanned during inventory, and either search for them myself or have a different student look for them. Any found are then scanned for inventory. It's necessary
to monitor closely to see which workers are inattentive and missing stuff, but even the best ones occasionally miss very small books hidden between or behind others.</p>
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<p>Some errors (books in wrong section, etc.) can be fixed just by shelving them properly. Most others are sent to Cataloging for correction. Lots of weird stuff can happen over decades. (I particularly 'enjoyed' the error where, in our transition to the
present system, quite a few multivolume sets lost all but one of their item records.)</p>
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<p>In theory our inventory program (we use TLC) can also tell if the books are in the wrong order on the shelf. I chose not to use that function since this was our first inventory in a long time and I wanted to deal with all the problems that I knew would
pop up, without adding shelf-reading on top of the inventory proper. (We have a regular shelf-reading program that's in good shape.)</p>
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A question has arisen in our library about what department should have the responsibility for inventory processes. By inventory processes, I refer to the actions related to physically scanning books in order to compare to the online catalog as an ongoing project.
Follow up on missing materials or materials without barcodes would be handled by Stacks Maintenance and Cataloging respectively. </p>
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If your library regularly has projects like this one, or has completed an inventory in the past, which department took responsibility for overseeing the shelf scanning processes? </p>
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