Well, when we were doing the paper lists a few years ago, the technician did
the bulk of the work composing the list, copying it, etc.  Myself and some
workstudy students would then assist her with preparing them for bulkmail.
We sent out one list a year and probably invested about 10 hours on that
project.

Now that we only participate on the listserv, we send out regular small
lists or individual items probably weekly or maybe monthly.  It's so
convenient with email since we're using the computers daily.  We might only
commit 4 hours a month skimming the offerings posted and maybe 1 hour if we
actually have materials to box and ship.  It's far less time consuming and
our student workers do so much of the pulling issues and boxing for us.

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

Dena Lahue Luce                 Ph.: (334) 386-7482
Extended Services Librarian     Fax: (334) 386-7481
Faulkner University                           Email: dluce@faulkner.edu
Gus Nichols Library
5345 Atlanta Hwy.
Montgomery, AL 36109-3398

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcia Trauernicht [mailto:mstwml@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 8:39 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: Duplicate exchanges and workflow

Thanks, Dena! Your information is indeed helpful. I would like to know
approximately what percentage of the two serials positions is taken up
by this work--how much time do you commit to doing this? Also, how
frequently do you prepare these lists within a year?
thanks again,
Marcia
mstwml@rit.edu