Hi Melissa
I used to work in a Law Firm Library years ago and also in other
academic Law libraries. I know it is a lot of work but it is good to have
a pocket part date stamped. It helps users to also know that they are referring
to the most current update of the law. It also brings little used titles
to the attention of the librarians when the pocket part is from 2001 and not up
to date. You can then question the vendor as to what happened to the
order etc. All in all it helps. The serials module is supposed to
track this but sometimes if the dates on the claims are off – you can
have orders that go a couple of years without proper claiming.
Do you have student workers? Maybe you do not want to have
your library assistants bogged down with date stamping but you can get a
student to do this for sure.
Sandy Srivastava
Sandhya
(Sandy) D. Srivastava
Electronic
Resources Librarian
New
York Institute of Technology
Wisser
Library
Northern
Boulevard
Old
Westbury, New York 11568-8000
Telephone:
(516) 686 - 3790
Fax:
(516) 686 - 1152
Email:
ssrivast@nyit.edu
From: SERIALST: Serials
in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa
Ewing
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:31 PM
To: SERIALST@list.uvm.edu
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Pocket parts
Hi Brenda,
Currently we are
stamping each one also, but we now have 4 branches. Each branch gets a
copy of the state codes for every state and they are all processed at the
main branch. The question was asked whether our time couldn't be better spent
doing something other than all that stamping. :) I'm curious to see what others
outside our little world think.
Melissa
Melissa Ewing
Serials Assistant
Brennan Law Library
Thomas M Cooley Law School
300 S. Capitol Ave.
PO Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Phone (517) 371-5140 ext. 3433
Fax (517) 334-5715
ewingme@cooley.edu
On 7/14/2010 at 2:20 PM, Brenda Carrillo <bcarrillo@PACIFIC.EDU>
wrote:
HI Melissa,
At my old Law
library, we used to property stamp/date stamp each new supplement part that
came in. It wasn't fun, but at least we knew which one was current and
already added to the catalog.
Hope this helps,
Brenda
Brenda
Carrillo
University
of the Pacific
Library
Technical Services
Serials
Department
3601
Pacific Ave
Stockton,
CA 95211
(209)
946-2798
Fax:
(209) 946-2810
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion
Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa Ewing
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:52 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Pocket parts
To all the law
libraries out there: When you check-in pocket parts, do you property stamp each
piece or just put them in the books "as is?"
Thanks,
Melissa Ewing
Serials Assistant
Brennan Law Library
Thomas M Cooley Law School
300 S. Capitol Ave.
PO Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Phone (517) 371-5140 ext. 3433
Fax (517) 334-5715
ewingme@cooley.edu