Dear Elisabeth,
I understand what you mean. Please read my other answer in this discussion. For the case of moving lots of objects internally, you need
1)some time for preparation of the new shelves and boxes etc.
2) the scanning time at the new location.
By using transponders and/or a new documentation program (see the other mail) this can be done even quicker, because nobody has to hold the scanner twice on the barcode labels of each and every object. Let your computer produce a list of items by location and say (at the new location): these selected 20 objects are now in shelve 123, these 40 objects in shelve 456, these 3 items in cupboard 789. As "shelve 123" is an index term, "human typing errors" can be avoided. Additional care has to be spent, of course, in all the packing aspects of the moving.
Best regards
Christian
"Elizabeth Moore" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> Dear CMS,
>
> It makes a big difference if you are moving thousands of objects. I
> used to work at NMNH and at one point when we were moving collections
> from one building to another we could move thousands of objects in a
> single day. Instead of typing in all of those new storage locations we
> could easily scan a cabinet with hundreds of small objects in minutes
> with no human typing errors.
>
> Here at VMNH, we are constructing a totally new building about a mile
> away from our current facility. As we prepare to move our 22 million
> plus objects we will be barcoding to track movement, inventory, and to
> be able to perform inventory checks in the future.
>
> Elizabeth
>
> Elizabeth Moore, PhD
> Curator of Collections and Archaeology
> Virginia Museum of Natural History
> www.vmnh.net
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Barcode Labelling: an observation
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> Dear Liz,
> What makes the difference between "beep" and "beep" and typing "S305"
> for changing the location? I really do not see a good reason for using
> barcodes. There are also modern electronic devices hidden behind,
> within, under the objects changing the location within the computer
> database automatically AND being an alarm system too.
>
> CMS
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