Hi Kathleen,

We do not barcode our individual current periodical issues , we only barcode the bound issues. Our ILS system allows us to capture in-house use. We have created an item in our catalog on each current periodical record. The item has a barcode and is only used for statistics and is shadowed from the public. We also created a notebook with an entry for each title in current periodicals and a duplicate barcode next to that entry. Before our current periodicals are shelved, the barcode in the notebook is read to indicate a use. The system captures that use as in-house and each month generates a report of usage per title.

Hope this is helpful.

Gracemary Smulewitz

From: "Kathleen Dougherty" <KDougherty@SUNO.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:57:12 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] tracking usage of current print journal issues

Hi,

I’m a new serials librarian. We are barcoding our bound journal issues for inventory and statistical purposes. But with current issues, we'll be deleting those individual barcodes once they are bound and replacing them with one for the bound volume, and would therefore lose the stats associated with those barcodes. I’d be interested to hear how other libraries handle this issue.

Thanks.

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Kate Dougherty

Electronic Resources & Government Documents Librarian

Leonard S. Washington Memorial Library

Southern University at New Orleans

6400 Press Drive

New Orleans, LA 70126

504-286-5222

kdougherty@suno.edu

Gracemary Smulewitz
Head, Distributed Technical Services

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
email: smulewi@rulmail.rutgers.edu
phone: 732-932-7388 ext 161
fax: 732-932-8141