Re: [LM_NET] HIT Inventory

[Joanne Shawhan <joanneshawhan@VERIZON.NET>]

Dear All,

I and my aide do inventory every year and I think it is worth the trouble for two 
reasons.

 First and most important, it keeps my catalog reasonably accurate.  If a student 
looks up a book in the OPAC and it says the book in on the shelf, it probably is.  
What's the point of teaching/insisting the kids look up books for themselves if the 
information they get is inaccurate.  It would become increasingly inaccurate each 
year inventory isn't done.

Two,  I use the list of lost and missing books (not returned, stolen) to order new 
books for the collection.  This year I started keeping books that have been 
previously replaced, often more than once, behind the counter and having students 
ask for them.  We made a small poster mounted on cardboard with a picture of the 
cover on it that says please ask for this book at the desk.  It has worked very 
well for the books that keep vanishing like a Child Called It.  A security system 
only works so well.  The students don't seem to mind either and I haven't had to 
replace those books again.

Joanne




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Joanne Shawhan 
Library Media Specialist 
Cobleskill-Richmondville High School 
1353 State Route 7--PO Box 490
Richmondville NY 12149
(518)234-3565 x1151, 1152 
(518) 234-9006 (fax)
joanneshawhan@verizon.net
shawhanj@crcs.k12.ny.us
http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/lib/hs/index.htm 

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