I don’t know how creative it is, but in addition to the “official” count by scanning, our Serials student assistants also report to me titles that are messy and/or frequently out of order. (Patrons are not known for necessarily reshelving correctly.) The NCTM titles, for example, require frequent straightening, ditto Sports Illustrated (which also tends to go missing) and Consumer Reports. After a while one gets a nose for the titles to watch, and we have a list of those for more frequent checking.
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Abbigail C Gregg
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 6:04 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Tracking Print Issues
Does anyone have any creative strategies for tracking use of print issues, whether loose or bound?
Right now we rely on scanning anything patrons leave lying around, but there’s a ton of self-shelving going on. I don’t think it’s very accurate. I was just wondering how others garnered their stats on this.
Abbigail Gregg
Library Technician
Geneva College - McCartney Library
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