Computer-Assisted Stock-Verification System
Anshul Chandel, R. K. Walia · Libri · 1993
Stock-verification is a problematic library operation which has both advantages and disadvantages. The serious disadvantage is the suspension of library services during this process which deprives library users from the reading facilities for weeks if not for months. To overcome this disadvantage, a computer-assisted stock-verification system was conceived and applied by using dBASE III Plus which proved much advantageous and cost effective in comparison with other existing methods of stock-verification. Its first phase involves recording of accession numbers and location codes/call numbers of documents from their sequences on the shelves. It has been proved that the first phase of this work of recording of 50,000 documents can easily be accomplished by putting in 200 man hours