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X. THE INVENTORY PROGRAM
These options allow you first to do inventory
and then to print out a list of
the items not found. Doing inventory in this manner requires that
every book in the collection have a barcode on it.
1.``Enter Titles Into Inventory
2.``Begin A New Inventory
3.``Finalize Inventory
4.``Inventory Print Options
5.``Return To Main Menu
Enter Option #
Doing inventory poses logistical problems
rather than programming problems. To use barcodes to do inventory,
the computer must be brought to the books or the books must be brought
to the computer.
Moving the hard disk is not a good practice.
Therefore, the hard disk version of allows inventory to be
taken on a separate computer with only one floppy disk
drive. A computer with one floppy disk drive can be put on a
movable cart. The books are inventoried by scanning the barcodes of the
books on the shelves with the barcode reader. The results are written
on floppy disks (copies of the Batch Disk), which will be uploaded to
the hard disk. The
last item barcode number that was read is shown on the screen at
all times.
You can begin and leave off scanning barcoded books anywhere in the
collection. If you scan the same book twice, the book will still be
marked as "here". Just as in an inventory by hand, you must keep track
of which sections have been done simply so that time is not wasted.
Normally, the Inventory
Batch Disks must be uploaded to the hard disk before
inventory results can be printed and checked. The uploading is done by
selecting Option 1: ENTER TITLES INTO INVENTORY from the Inventory Menu.
ENTER TITLES INTO INVENTORY
When you choose Option 1: ENTER TITLES INTO INVENTORY, the hard
disk program will ask if you wish to enter them in from floppy disks.
After Inventory Batch Disks have been uploaded, you
should print a list of unmarked books in order to check the inventory
results.
Since this Demo/Tutorial is
already on floppy disks, the batch method of
inventory cannot be demonstrated. Inventory can, however, be simulated
by typing in the numbers of the books to be inventoried.
BEGIN A NEW INVENTORY
This choice sets all the counters back to zero. This tells
the computer that you wish to start over again. You would make this
choice just before beginning a new inventory. The only codes that
remain after this option has been completed are the "MISSING: 86" or
other previous years' finalized inventory codes. (These codes are
removed only by checking the item out or by scanning the item's barcode
during a later inventory.)
TUTORIAL #13
In this tutorial you will pretend that you are conducting an
inventory.
1.From the Main Menu, select 6 `to
arrive at the Inventory Menu.
2.Press @Return! when asked for a password.
3.Type 2 `to Begin A New Inventory.
4.Type `Y `when asked whether you have
time to reset the inventory markers.
5.When the markers have been reset,
type `1 `to Enter Titles Into
Inventory.
6.Type @Return! for the first
title number.
CIRCULATION PLUS** Inventory Titles **
Enter Title Number: 151__
Last Title # Was 0
7.Keep typing all numbers from 152 to 165.
8.Press @Esc! to return to the Inventory Menu.
FINALIZE INVENTORY
This option is not chosen until an inventory has been
completed.` Why? Because it will mark any item that has not been
inventoried as a missing book, missing in inventory as of the current
year. Before this option is selected, the inventory should have been
completed and a list of unmarked books printed,
That list must be double-checked
against the shelves. When it is ascertained that the
list of unmarked books is accurate, this option to Finalize Inventory
is chosen.
(On the Demo/Tutorial, we are not going to take this step.)
+*+ Follett Library Software +*+
*** INVENTORY REPORT ***
Unmarked Books By Call # 500-699
Today's Date: Apr 2, 1986
Last Report: Oct 10, 1985
TITLE
CALL#/AUTH BC#
TY2 LR#
Accidents will happen 621.48 Env
187 R00
The dolphin smile 599.5 Devi
$ 7.95186 R12
Flying : principles of flight629.132 Ca
$ 2.50185 R12
Life long ago, the story of fossils560 Fenton$ 6.00
178 R00
The nibbling diet613.2 Engl
$ 7.95177 R00
Nutrition612.39 Cha $ 6.50
166 R00
INVENTORY PRINT OPTIONS
You may print a list of books found missing in one of three
ways: by Call Number Author, by Category Type, and in alphabetical
order by Title.
1.``Print Out By Call# Author
2.``Print Out By Category Range
3.``Print Out All Titles
4.``Return To Inventory Menu
Enter Option #
The call number list is probably the most practical. Any
range of Dewey numbers may be chosen; e.g., 700-900 (or any alphabetical
range of LC categories if you have specified that you use the LC
classification system). Fiction books
may be broken down by letters of the alphabet, since``always
allows partial matches. The range Fic-S would print the
missing fiction books of all authors whose last names begin with the
letter S. The range Fic by itself would print all the missing fiction
books.
Each type of listing allows four choices: lists of marked books,
lists of unmarked books, lists of missing books, or lists of books
missing one particular year. The lists of marked and unmarked books
may be printed after the inventorying has been completed but
before Option 3: FINALIZE INVENTORY has been chosen.
You will use them to confirm the fact that the inventory has been
completed, that no shelves or sections have been missed, and so on.
The list of unmarked books will be a list of all items whose
barcode numbers were scanned (or typed) during the
inventorying process that are checked out. In other words,
items that are checked out will not be considered missing. The items
checked out to special patrons 1 through 4 will not be listed either,
since they are accounted for.
After the inventory results are final and Option 3: FINALIZE
INVENTORY
has been completed, you would choose one of the other
printing options. Lists of missing books would list all books missing
in all inventories that have been conducted. The list by year, of
course, lists only the items that disappeared in the year requested.
The lists by Call# Author allow you to indicate the classification
range to be included on the list.
The lists by Category Type ask whether you wish to search by 1 or
2 types. Then you are asked to indicate the Category Type number/s to be
included. If you are searching by two types, you may indicate a
Boolean relationship ("not," "or," or "and") between the two.
If you elect to print the missing items for one year, you will be
asked to enter the last two digits of the year.
***** Example *****
From the Inventory Menu, select `4`, Inventory
Print Options.
Choose: `1` to Print Out By Call# Author.
Select: `2` to print a list of Unmarked Books By
Call# Author.
@Return!
@Return! for the Call# range.
Press @Return! to begin the printing.
When the list is finished, press @Esc! until you are back at the
Main Menu.
*************************
YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE TUTORIALS.If you wish to
exit, you must select the Main Menu option to 'Backup/Quit', enter the
password, and press @Return!. Or, you may select any other
option and experiment with the program. You can re-enter this
program at any time to gain additional experience with Circulation
Plus's many features, as well.Keep in mind that, if you or another
person would like to follow the tutorials again, a new copy of the
write-protected Demo.Data disk must be
used so the data will match the exercises.