Inventory and Shelf Reading

Inventory and shelf reading are done an ongoing basis and is the purview of the Circulation Supervisor. These activities assure that the Library’s catalog is kept up to date and accurately reflects the library’s holdings, and that library materials may be easily accessed once found via the catalog.

Inventory of at least part of the collection is performed every other year, usually during the summer after Spring Quarter has ended.

Circulation Student workers are tasked with re-shelving and shelf-reading the Circulating collection.

Materials Repair

Books in bad physical repair, but still worth keeping, will be repaired if possible, or replaced with new copies if they are available. Materials needing repair are referred to the Collection Services Librarian, who decides on the best disposition of the piece. This may include mending, re-binding, withdrawing, or replacing.