New school year, same problem: outdated inventory management that doesn’t make the storekeeper’s job any easier. Keeping track of thousands of assets with Excel, library software (SIGB) or, worse still, by hand is a real ordeal… which could easily be avoided. Material tracking and loan management shouldn’t be cumbersome, time-consuming tasks that encroach on all your other projects. Not to mention that using old, manual methods predisposes you to wasted time and mistakes.
Anthony Leroy has been a software engineer at the Libraries of the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) since 2011. He is in charge of the digitization infrastructure and the digital preservation program of the University Libraries. He coordinates the activities of the SAFE distributed preservation network, an international LOCKSS network operated by seven partner universities.