<h1>Inventory help</h1> <p>With this utility you can take invetory of your collection</p> <p>There are two ways to do this :</p> <ul> <li>list books that haven't been 'seen' and then search for them on the shelves</li> <li>Scan all books which will tell Koha they have been 'seen'</li> </ul> <p>Koha supports both methods:</p> <h2>List unseen books and search for them on the shelves</h2> <p> In the 1st bloc, you can select : <ul> <li>a itemcallnumber range: to limit the list to a small physical shelf</li> <li>a date last seen: to see only books which have been unseen for a long time</li> </ul> <p>If you validate your search, you'll get a list of items. Go to the shelves, search them, and, if you see them, click on them</p> <h2>Scan all books and tell Koha you've seen them</h2> <p>This feature is new in Koha 2.2.6 : you can now scan ALL the books in your shelves (with a barcode reader and a laptop) and store them in a text file (from notepad or any text-only editor <b>This does NOT include MS-word or OpenOffice.org</b>)</p> <p>Once you have a long barcode list, reach the second bloc on inventory.pl, and upload the file : all items you have scanned will automatically be modified to have datelastseen set to whatever you wan</p> <p>Once you're done with your library, you can look at missing books by querying the 1st bloc for books unseen since the beginning of your inventory</p>
<p>Note that inventory is calculated on a “date last seen” flag. This flag is automatically set every time a book circulate</p>
From this screen you can search for a selection of the catalogue based on MARC records.
Enter the range of records you wish to examine and a date from which you wish to search from (Not seen since).