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Permalink Reply by Ambika C.A. on June 9, 2013 at 21:13

Total no. of books in the library.

Total No. of books available on shelf

Total No. of books in circulation

Total no. of missing books (if demanded, attach the list of missing books with acc no. author & title)

Staff list who helped in doing stock verification

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on June 11, 2013 at 21:16

Dear Sri Tushar Vanzwala;

I have gone through your proforma relating to stock verification. It is a good one However with certain modifications it may be more usable & transparent as I presume.

First, Library stock verification SHOULD NOT be conducted by Library staff.

Second, Regarding library materials, there are many materials besides books & Cds in a library like Journals(bound volumes) for example. As such, in the Summary at the item column there should be provision for such specific items.

Third, in the Summary column, a few headings need to be added & some existing heading need to be modified; like:

(a) In the Total No of Books Accessed heading  it may be modified as Total number of materials as per record as on........ Here you can put the exact number of each materials recorded in your various registers on a particular date

(b) You may modify the Missing materials in FOUR distinctly different headings like:

(i)  Lost by individuals: NEW

(ii) Missing materials: NEW

(iii) Lost by individuals: OLD:

(iv) Lost from Library :OLD

(v) Please also include another heading as status.

This will help you to explain what actions has been taken especially for old cases (like cost recovered or document replaced or written off etc. etc.as the case may be) In that way, it will reveal a more transparent picture of total missing & lost materials. It will also "diminish" the quantum of loss/missing during the present/last stock verification

(vi) Add the heading Cost It will reveal ultimate loss to the institute in financial yardstick.

Barring the above inputs, the proforma is quite impressive as i believe. Thank you for bringing this to the LIS Link forum for our benefits

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Satish Totar on June 10, 2013 at 19:51

add this one also

Total no. of books lossed and amount recovered from Staff & students

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Permalink Reply by Tushar Vanzwala on June 11, 2013 at 0:07

Dear Sir,

Hope this attached file will be useful to you.

Attachments:

• Stock verification report.docx, 16 KB

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Permalink Reply by mahesh singh on June 11, 2013 at 22:53

" How much Librarian Responsible for Library book Missing and its missing books amount recover by Librarian Salary"

Please give some information with authentic and according to Library Rules.

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