If 100 subscriptions are all you have, the time it takes to check in and claim will be quite modest. If your mean frequency is monthly, that amounts to about five issues arriving per work day. I have known library employees who fancied they were this tightly scheduled; I have yet to meet any who actually were.  
 
 I do not bother with daily newspapers, but everything else gets checked-in and I do notice when the dailies are not arriving and call and complain. 
 
IW

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Todd Grooten <tgrooten@infotrieve.com> wrote:

Good morning all,

I know that this is an issue that has probably come up in the past, but I am interested in how many of you have stopped checking in and claiming print journals.  I work in a corporate library with less than 100 print subscriptions, and we are are considering stopping both of these processes.  It seems that the time spent doing these processes might outweigh any benefit they bring. 

Thanks in advance,

Todd M. Grooten

Cataloger, Fort Wayne, IN




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