I seriously doubt Sagebrush does anything to update Spectrum anymore but if they do there are some things they need to fix.
For one, I don't understand why there is not a report to show materials inventoried by circulation that are scanned during inventory. I have found three books on the shelf that we had checked out to patrons but they were on the shelf. One had even been paid for!! Also, even if this could not be done they could at least make it so that when you entered your materials into the inventory program you could go back and look at the codes listed beside each one. The way it is now you can only go back a certain number of items.
The way I have gotten the material numbers from the items with code AI is to keep scrolling down while trying to memorize the number so I can write it down. This is NOT easy but I have used it to catch two of those three. I tried reentering those barcodes a second time but the AI code did not show up on the second run through... they were all just marked A.
Also, I like the feature that allows you to print unrecongnized barcodes, however instead of just giving the last call number entered I wish it gave the last barcode entered. I could find the call number myself, but I won't know for sure which book gave the wrong code unless I have the number of the material before it.... unless I compare materials waiting to be entered to the unrecognized numbers but that takes more work.
I am sure there are reasons why it is done this way but I wish they would do an update for it to includes these minor fixes.
Can you tell I am in the middle of inventory?
