I have to catalog business material with my current employer for others to check out. It will be a type of Travel Library for anyone in the company to check a book, CD, audio CD, out for a extended amount of time. Nothing has been set in stone and I am starting from point A. HELP ME!!
2007-08-09 07:58:17 · 2 answers · asked by AB 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
You need to develop some tracking system for the items that will be checked out, and some tracking system for the people who are allowed to check them out. How sophisticated this system has to be depends on how many items you're talking about. If it's 200 or so, I'd probably have an index card for each one where the person signs when they take the item - file the cards for the items that are out in a different place than the items that are not out. Having them sign would eliminate the arguments over "I never had that" if they don't return it.
A spreadsheet could sort of work, but would probably be more of a pain to use (although quicker to set up) than an index card system, and wouldn't have good verification of who had an item out - it would be as accurate as your input, but wouldn't be proof when somebody denies it.
If you have thousands of items, then purchasing a library type of software package could make sense.
The main thing is that whatever you use, you need to be able to figure out quickly who has an item if it's out, and track all of the items.
Good luck.
2007-08-09 08:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just set up an excel spreadsheet or access data base
2007-08-09 08:00:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋