I typically keep just one copy of a book in my colleciton. However, if I get a duplicate copy of a book that I haven't seen for awhile (because it has been overdue for quite some time), I have been assigning the new book with the same accession number as the older non-returned book, assuming the other one is never coming back. I have done this with several different books, but now I am wondering if I could run into a problem if some of those older books ever do show up. Then I will have duplicate books with the same accession number, and it could be confusing. Would it be best to assign the new book with a new number until I know for sure the old book is not coming back? I would be curious to see how some of you replace a non-returned book with a new copy.
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In Concourse I am able to export a report (all items with the location "discarded") into another application like Excel.
When we decide to discard something, we change the location to Discarded and then add a comment about WHY we discarded it - low usage, poor condition, etc.
I keep a Master Discards List and just keep adding each batch to it. Then when the items are deleted, we still have a record of what we used to have and why we got rid of those.
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