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Why? For the auditors!  It is all about accountability.

Jan, TL @ Delany College
GRANVILLE   NSW

jalera1 @ bigpond.net.au  (delete the spaces)


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From: "David Lininger" <tss003@TNP.MORE.NET>
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Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Blasphemy about inventory


> janet perry wrote:
> 
>> Am I the only one who has never done an inventory in all the years 
>> I've been a librarian, and don't intend to start now?  Is inventory a 
>> sacred cow we learn about, or hear rumors and horror stories about in 
>> library school, and are too afraid to change?  What does doing a 
>> formal inventory do for us?
> 
> 
> No, you aren't the only one who doesn't do a formal inventory. For 10 
> years I was the only librarian (and part-time at that) at a library that 
> had more than 31,000 books. During those 10 years I did some shelf 
> reading, but that was about it. I had no money to buy books, the 
> administration thought that all books were equal in value, so therefore 
> weeding was forbidden, and in general the library was considered a 
> necessary nuisance. I left there in 1998, and I'm still a one-man show, 
> but at least I'm a full-time librarian in a library with less than 6000 
> books. Like Janet, I've got a pretty good idea of what is here and what 
> isn't. Eventually, I get around to deleting books that have been missing 
> for several years, but often, the book shows up a week after I deleted 
> it, so I'm not in much of a hurry.
> 
> Probably the best argument for doing a proper inventory is when you are 
> leaving. It is frustrating for a new librarian to look up something in 
> the catalog, see that the computer says it is on the shelf, and then 
> find that it isn't there. Is it out of place, "borrowed," lost, stolen, 
> or what? I'm planning to retire in 2015 (+/- a year or two), and I hope 
> to have a good inventory done then. Until then, I'll settle for some 
> thorough, partial inventories that actually help me weed and purchase.
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Lininger, kb0zke,
> MS/HS librarian
> Hickory County R-1 Schools
> Urbana, MO 65767
> 417-993-4226
> tss003 at tnp dot more dot net
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