‘Location’ enhances ability to track library resources

Cataloging is essential to tracking a library’s resources — in this case, inventory of educational items among Santa Rosa City Schools. Bringing a librarian-mindset to my job as Instructional Materials Technician, I’m creating records for resources in-use at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts.

I’ve mentioned that as part of adding new arrivals to the catalog, I use a “Home Location” field to specify where on campus each item resides. But in addition to cataloging resources in classrooms, I’ve also been creating records for items that are stored here in “Textbook HQ.”

With more titles and copies added near-daily, it became increasingly important to specify storage-location.

So for each cabinet where I am storing books, I devised alphanumeric labeling. Next, I updated the affected items’ records to specify that physical location. The photo above depicts an action to indicate that books are in “IMT-102.” The photo below offers a view of books on the shelf inside the labeled cabinet.