I was previously at an undergraduate state institution that subscribed to most of the hometown newspapers in the state.  Although we had students doing the check-in, we thought that the time spent on  newspaper check-in could be more efficiently used elsewhere (weeding and shifting.)  One student was assigned to maintaining the newspapers in the leisure reading area and they checked other titles as they shelved.  We had very little (miniscule) problems with the papers not arriving and no complaints.  I believe that we kept six issues of a title unless it was a daily and we kept maybe 14 or 16.  The student put the newest on top and recycled the oldest. 

Hope this helps,

Mary

Mary Williams (mwill108@uthsc.edu)

Serials Librarian

Room 250

Library and Biocommunications Center

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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Memphis, TN 38163

Phone: (901) 448-5154

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Moran, Katherine McCabe Haggerty
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:10 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] checking in some print serials

Hi all,

I'm interested if anyone feels like their library has had luck in reducing the amount of print serials check-in they do (NOT stopping check-in altogether)? What you might call selective check-in.

What criteria did you use in deciding what to check-in and what to stop checking in? (frequency, price, use, ubiquity, ownership of duplicate formats, retention...)

How do you distinguish between what gets checked in and what doesn't?

Do you sample or do any more sporadic checks of material that doesn't get checked in regularly to see if there are large receipt problems?

Has your library tried selective check-in but gone back to checking in everything because they found that it wasn't a significant time savings or that it actually took longer?

If anyone has any experience or wisdom on this topic they'd be willing to share with me, I'll happily report back to the list what I learn.

Thanks!

Katherine Haggerty Moran


Serials Order and Record Specialist
E-Resources & Serials Management
Davis Library
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University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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