Starting a library or district media center inventory

When beginning an inventory, Destiny allows you specify the materials:

• You can limit the inventory to copies in a particular call number range.
• You can exclude any copies that have been seen recently.
• You can limit it to copies with specific Circulation Types.

How do I start an inventory?

What does "copies that have been seen" mean?

How do I start an inventory?

1. Provide a unique name of up to 30 characters for this inventory. This name appears in the inventory list on the Inventory page and on all inventory lists and reports.
2. To limit the inventory to copies that are in a particular call number range, enter a Dewey number or call number prefix in each box next to Call Numbers from and to.
3. To limit the inventory to copies with specific Circulation Types, click to select the Circulation Types. (Not available in Media Manager)
4. If you want to exclude copies that have been seen recently, enter a date in the box next to Except for copies….
   Click for a calendar.
5. When you've entered your limiters, click , and Yes on the confirmation message, to begin the inventory and return to the main Inventory page.

Note: The Boolean AND connects each limiter option. For Destiny to include a copy in the inventory, it must match every limiter you set.

Important: Once you make your selections here and click , you cannot return and make changes.
You can view these inventory parameters by clicking View Selections in the lower left corner of the main Inventory page.

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What does "copies that have been seen" mean?

Every time Destiny updates information about a copy during one of the following transactions or processes, Destiny also updates its date last seen information:

• Check Out (Library Manager)
• Including it in a Pick List (Media Manager)
• Check In
• Inventory
• Individual Update in Update Copies
• Receive in Update Copies (Library Manager)
• Add titles ( or I want to "Add to this List") to a Resource List when adding records using a barcode scan, a barcode list, or a barcode file.

For example, if you checked in several copies or received some transferred from your district cataloger last week, you can set the date to a week ago. Then you do not need to scan those copies.

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