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D I V I S I O N O F T E C H N O L O G Y , I N F O R M A T I O N A N D L E A R N I N G S U P P O R TD I V I S I O N O F T E C H N O L O G Y , I N F O R M A T I O N A N D L E A R N I N G S U P P O R T
Circa Wireless Inventory (barcode):
The QUT experience
Garry Johnston Library Collection Access SupervisorQUT Library
CRICOS No. 00213J
AIUG 2011 Lightning Session
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QUT flagged CIRCA as an application that may better facilitate inventory of QUT Library collections.
Stocktake at QUT is carried out on a rolling schedule, with one branch each year required to undertake. Very labour intensive.
Circa’s ability to provide real-time updatingof item records in Millennium with the use of a wireless web enabled device couldprovide efficiencies in time and costs.
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Circa Wireless Inventory (barcode)Past experience with inventory control at QUT
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Circa Wireless Inventory (barcode)Main problems with this process:
Potential for data loss (device failure, barcode misreads).
High level of administrative input to upload/import data from multiple devices daily.
Time delay and difficulty in identifying problem items (not until uploaded to millennium that errors could be discovered. And then often difficult to go back to the source data to determine item (particularly if no item record existed)
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Implemented Circa in early 2011
Utilised existing laptops and trialled HP iPAQ with socket scanner.
Initial testing was largely successful and proceeded to
full scale trial for stocktake of Library Store collection
(95,000 items).
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Incorrect data within the MARC formatting of some bib records
Example:883 d 48 84 6 5 3 0 |1F a T e a c h i n g p r a c t i c e s . | a T e a c h i n g p r a c t i c e s . Corrected the line to read: 883 d 26 84 6 5 3 0 | a T e a c h i n g p r a c t i c e s .
Circa is unable to perform the requested task
RESOLVED!
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