Inventory Project at the NJIT Library

For the first time in 11 years the NJIT Library inventoried the circulating and reference collections.  We are doing this in preparation for the move to a statewide catalog of the holdings of VALE libraries.  The task of shelf-reading and manually determining the missing books fell to an outside organization.  The  library staff changed the holdings records for the books that were determined to be missing.  If they are still missing months from now, the cataloging and OCLC records will be purged.  It is inevitable in any library that books will be stolen or lost.  I observed that the "inventory shrinkage" was minimal.

Libraries are moving away from their role of being a depository for printed resources.  Thus, this will likely be the last inventory done by the NJIT Library.