Catalogue as you go
'A library statement claims that 14 library workers searched through 180,000 of the print stacks' 320,000 items before the missing items were discovered.'
I bet that they didn't catalogue the items as they sifted through them, had they done that they would already be more than halfway through.
They probably just routed through them in no particular order, moving and mixing them as they went along.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
