<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>A cost-effective book inventory: Hand-held inventory device choosing and statistical analysis</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Gordon</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Xu</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Recently, a book inventory project was done at a medium-sized academic library. Based on our best practice, the author discusses cost-effective inventory methodology, hand-held inventory device choosing, and statistical analysis regarding a variety of related issues, including missing, mis-shelving and on-going shelf-reading.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Aleph</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">General Topics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2017-05-12</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>