I borrowed M’s scanner and my assistant S and I did inventory on January 3rd and 4th. We were running into a situation where the students would be using the OPAC to find a book, they would write the info down, try to find the book and it wasn’t there. This happened over and over again. In early December, I emailed my prinicipal and asked permission to do an inventory on the first two days back from break. An inventory hadn’t been done in nearly two years and it was time! We closed the library these two days and went to work. I stayed until about 6:00 p.m. Friday night finishing it, because I was determined to get back to normal on Monday the 7th.
The first report I ran indicated that we had 321 missing books!! Woah. That is almost one per student in our school. Well, I just happened to miss all of the big books, of which we have about 100 of, so that brought the count down to closer to 200.
