OLIS-LORI Delivery Items Count

Sunday October 30 to Saturday November 5, 2022
items count worksheet

Count ALL items going to non-OSL libraries and items not checked out through Sierra. This includes but is not limited to anything out-going in your delivery bin to a Massachusetts library.
Data of your outgoing items to other OSL libraries will be captured. Each library will enter the additional items from your library, not tracked in Sierra.

Must participate in the count and record the number of outgoing items for their library. Please use the worksheet to record items. A worksheet is available for printing online at worksheet.rtf or worksheet.pdf
Hub libraries do not count the items for the satellite libraries. Each library must count their own outgoing items. This means that any item requiring a LORI 3 letter code for filling an ILL or Hold request must be counted if the delivery vendor will be picking it up.

During the week of the items count, every time outgoing “item” is placed into the Delivery bin at your library, count it. Regardless of format or purpose or where it is going, if it is being transported out-going by the delivery service, count it.
Use hatch marks or numbers to record the number of outgoing items as they are placed into the bins or any container, and then record the total number of items at the end of the day. Write the total in the right column for Day Total. Use a separate sheet for items count if there is not enough room in the attached record sheet.
Designate one person to enter the results of the worksheet on the Monday following the week of the items count. All results should be entered at one time. The link to the online form will be provided on the OLIS home page.
Please ensure that everyone in your library knows that items outgoing in the delivery must be recorded. You may want to display the items count worksheet in a prominent place, so that staff members come upon it every time they are about to place something in the bin. Having plenty of pencils or pens available is also a good idea.

Please do not send the items count worksheet to OLIS; the recorded data must be entered online.

Questions? Contact Kelley Lima at 574-9308 or Chaichin Chen at 574-9307.