Delivery/pick up information: A driver arrived this afternoon to pick up our carts. I told him that we never received confirmation of a Friday pickup and in fact had cancelled our Friday request and asked for Monday instead. He said he had come to campus on Thursday as well. I spoke to Beverly about this. It seems OCA or WB Meyer is not communicating well with the freight company, or with us. After discovering the problems with the picklist (see below) I asked Beverly to cancel all pick ups until we are absolutely sure the shipment is ready to go.
Picklist problems: I am checking the order of the books/barcodes with the order of the picklist. I found 7 volumes on Truck #1 that had barcodes omitted from the picklist. I entered these manually into the picklist. I plan to reorder the "Book order" column when the picklist is complete. My revised version of the picklist (still a working copy) is saved on the wiki as 1b.
On Truck #2 I found 36 volumes with 1-5 missing barcodes each. (I haven't reached the end of the truck yet, so there may be more.) I manually entered the barcodes missing from 6 of these volumes, then realized that there were too many missing to make manual entry a reasonable solution. I then started deleting the volumes that had problems from the picklist. After deleting 30, I realized I was liable to eliminate everything, so I stopped and conferred with Beverly and Bob.
I will contact Christine to see how she generated the picklist. It seems to have missed quite a few records.
Ann Marie, August 15
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Preservation has finished prepping the first batch of books. We have two empty shelves remaining on the Meyer book trucks, and Bob has arranged with Delivery Services to send over approximately 79" worth of additional books. Bob will let Christine know which items should be added to the picklist.
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