RE: Inventory equipment

["William Gray" <wgray@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an interesting method, but only 300 items scanned in a morning? With the B321 I was able to scan about 1500 items in the space of two hours... I'm not trying to be critical, just comparing the time and money expenditures of purchasing a B321 versus a laptop... Seems like the extra staff time required to scan items may outweigh the benefits of saving money from not buying the readers, at least for a largish collection (half-million or more items?).

I, too, have been looking at B321 alternatives, such as using a PDA with a scanner, so like everyone else, I'd be interested in hearing about anything that works, but works quickly.

William Gray
Library Technical Assistant
Greenwich Library


-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Puccio [mailto:puccio@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:35 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Inventory equipment


Hi All,

We have just started an inventory just like this.

We have a barcode reader on a Laptop w/ wireless network.

Barcode is scanned.
Then we use a barcode text macro (or a series of commands on the PC clipboard)  
that places a code in the ICODE2 = i  and inserts a x NOTE = Inventory 6/03.

Once a range is scanned we can create various lists to reconcile.
About 300 items can be scanned in a morning.

When we are completely done we will remove the ICODE2, but we will keep the x 
NOTE.

It is working very well for us so far.

Please call or email if you would like specific information, such as the Create 
List parameters.

Good Luck

-- 
Todd Puccio
Technical Services Librarian
Nova Southeastern University
Health Professions Library
(954)262-3114
puccio@xxxxxxxxxx



Quoting George Leggiero <gleggiero@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> I'd be interested in this information as well
> 
> George Leggiero
>      Unit Leader for Circulation and Library Systems Support  
>      Grasselli Library
>      John Carroll University
>      216 397-1988
>      Fax 216 397-4256
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:innopac-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fran Juergensmeyer
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Lourdes Mordini
> Subject: Inventory equipment
> 
> Has anyone done an inventory of all or part of a collection using a
> laptop
> with a regular barcode reader, rather than the B321 Portable Barcode
> Reader that III recommends?  We are planning to do an inventory of
> several
> collections and were wondering if we could just scan the barcodes into a
> text file and upload it to the catalog.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Fran Juergensmeyer
>   Waukegan (IL) Public Library
>   fjuergen@xxxxxxxxxx
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