Hello everyone,

Well its that time of year for us again to have a thorough stock take and clean of our library and we were wondering how other libraries did their stocktake.

We find it is a huge mission and are looking at ideas and ways for this to change for next year so other input that we know works would be very useful.

Regards,
Rivka

Toy Library: Papakura Toy Library

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Stocktake is always a huge job. We do ours in June and work it like this:
- Librarian prints off all the labels and puts them into clear folders (one folder for each number series).
- Membership co-ordinator rosters duty members on for about 2 hours each - we have four members at each session and do four sessions from 9am.
- This year, on the Friday before, the librarian and I went through and put the toys in numerical order. It made it easier for the members to find it.
- We have also done an example of our 'perfect' label. Each member had that as they cleaned/checked the toys.
- Committee work on fixing the problems that members find - bags, boxes, labels, etc.
- This year we actually did the puzzles on the following Tuesday. This worked quite well.

Hope there are some tips in there for you!

Toy Library: Tawa-Linden

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We do a stocktake at the end of the financial year..but we now separate stock taking from cleaning..Last stocktake the committee went in with our photo catalogue and ticked off each toy..then followed up the missing /still on loan toys.
Cleaning is at a different time

Toy Library: Diamond Harbour

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