Library Stock Management: A Case study of Stock Verification of Central Library, IIT Delhi Chaurasia Neeraj Kumar1,*, Chaurasia Mr. Pankaj2 1Assistant Librarian, Central Library, IIT, New Delhi 2Assistant Librarian, NIPCCD, 5, New Delhi *Correspondence to: Dr. Neeraj Kumar Chaurasia, neerajkc@library.iitd.ac.in
Online published on 16 May, 2017. Abstract Stock verification is one of the component of library management. The paper defines the concept of ‘stock verification’ and describes various policy issues, frequency with which the job of stock verification should be undertaken and norms for inevitable losses. Various methods of stock verification with its suitability and unsuitability and advantages of stock verification have also been described. Stock verification in libraries using the LibSys (Rel.6) software with particular reference to Central Library, IIT Delhi has been explained. The complete procedure, i.e., initiate stock verification, document verification and report generation through the LibSys software has been elaborated. The paper also describes the post stock verification steps with special reference to IIT Delhi Library system. Top |