Sunday, December 3, 2017

4,000 items cataloged in SRCSA resource inventory

Stack of books, only the top book's cover visible, atop a sheet of barcode labels with a school address stamp and stamp pad next to them. The top book's title identifies it as 'The Sign of the Beaver' by Elizabeth George Speare. The image on the cover depicts the dark outline of a large creature rearing up on its hind legs against a yellow background

Since May 2017, when I started working for Santa Rosa City Schools, I’ve created listings in the district’s resource-inventory catalog for more than than 4,000 items at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts (SRCSA). That’s according to a “Resource Inventory Change Analysis” generated by Follett Destiny’s “Resource Manager.”

In May, there were no items in the online resource catalog for SRCSA, and when I stepped into the role of “Instructional Materials Technician” for SRCSA, I embraced and valued the ability to track resources when they are cataloged and barcoded.

I felt comfortable with that aspect of this role, as I have four years’ prior experience with cataloging books in a library. By the end of November, I’d documented more than 4,000 items — textbook sets, DVDs and musical instruments among them — at SRCSA. Shown here are newly-barcoded copies of a title in a classroom reading set.

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