Subject:  Re: inventory in periodicals -- Linda Grooms
From:  Sharon Wieczorek <swieczorek@mercyhurst.edu>
Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:51:28 -0400

Are you referring to the yearly inventory needed for total number of
pieces added to the Library collection which is used in an external
survey report (I don't remember what organization collects this data.)
Or is the inventory for in-house use only?

Sharon Wieczorek
Serials Supervisor
Mercyhurst College
Hammermill Library
Erie, PA 16546

 > Subject:  Re: inventory in periodicals -- Susan Shelly
 > From:  Linda Grooms <lgrooms@stetson.edu>
 > Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:40:27 -0400
 >
 > Each of our periodicals student assistants is responsible for a section
 > of our periodical collection. At the beginning of each semester I print
 > a report of periodical holdings for each of these sections that the
 > assistants use while shelf-reading. They note any differences between
 > the report and what they see on the shelves. At the end of the semester
 > I collect all the shelf-reading guides and check to see if the items
 > marked as missing are still missing. If so, I update our holdings. This
 > provides a continuous inventory.
 >
 > At 10:46 AM 4/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
 > Subject:  inventory in periodicals
 > From:  Susan Shelly <susancs@goshen.edu>
 > Date:  Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:16:16 -0500
 >
 > One and all:
 > Still feeling new to Serials/Periodicals, I'd like to know how and/or if
 > you do yearly inventory of periodicals and microforms.
 >
 > Our current system here is to mark all our received microforms in
 > inventory notebooks, but since they basically are a repeat (or should be
 > a repeat) of what is in the catalog, I don't see the point.  When I
 > discuss getting rid of the inventory books, I am asked, "but how will we
 > take inventory?"
 >
 > It seems to me a report generated from the catalog could be checked
 > against what is truly on the shelves instead of keeping a second set of
 > books, but am I missing something here?
 >
 > *******************************
 > Susan C. Shelly
 > Librarian, Serials and Services
 > Good Library
 > GOSHEN COLLEGE
 > 1700 South Main Street
 > Goshen, Indiana 46526
 > 574.535.7637
 >
 > Linda Grooms
 > Periodicals Supervisor
 > lgrooms@stetson.edu