Routing Periodicals (3 messages) SERIALST Moderator 29 Aug 2006 13:40 UTC
3 messages: (1)------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:20:04 -0400 From: "Turner, Alice D" <aturner@iupui.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Routing Periodicals Pam, Here are the guidelines that we have for routing periodicals. Anyone that works in the library can put their name on a routing slip so they can see the issue each time it comes in. After I check in a journal that is to be routed, I attach a routing slip with whoever wanted to see the issue. I have a note at the bottom of the slip that says to keep "ONE DAY ONLY" (knowing that they probably will keep the issue a day or two longer). I also have a list of all the issues that are routed and who gets them, so if that issue is not back by the following week, I put out a general email that whoever might still have the issue, will return it, and if that does not work within 24 hours, I hunt the issue down. For the most part, by doing this procedure, we usually don't have very much trouble getting the issues back to bind, which we bind every three weeks, because of having so many journals in our medical library. I hope that I have been of some help. Have a nice day. Alice Alice Turner Senior Technical Serials Assistant Indiana University School of Medicine I.U. School of Medicine Library Medical Research Building, IB 100, Room 202 975 West Walnut Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 aturner@iupui.edu -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Owens, Pamela R Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:43 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Routing Periodicals Does anyone have guidelines on routing periodical issues? Who can, who can't? Time frame for reviewing? I'm finding that at our library issues don't always find their way to the reading room resulting in purchasing replacement copies. Suggestions? Thanks, Pam Pam Owens Head, Serials Acquisitions Unit Indiana University Herman B Wells Library Technical Services Department 1320 E. 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 TEL: (812) 855-5639 FAX: (812) 855-3072 (2)-------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:54:29 -0400 From: "Stokes, Judith" <JStokes@ric.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Routing Periodicals We "allow" 3 days per reader, but we also have a few well-known "slow readers" on our staff. If you don't already know who is sitting on routed periodicals, try asking everyone to date the routing slip with the date they received it, next to their initials. Folks at the end of the route will be only to glad to record that they received the January issue in July. There will be some fudging of dates, but you will pick up the pattern in not too long. Before you try to ban folks from the lists, you can try putting them at end of the lists. One of our slow readers shaped up after she realized she was causing so much trouble. Others continue to need reminders. Another tack we have taken with some titles is to route only the TOC. Good luck, Judith Stokes, Serials Librarian James P. Adams Library Rhode Island College Providence, RI 02908-1991 (401)456-8165 JStokes@RIC.edu (3)------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:58:28 -0400 From: Fred.Jenkins@notes.udayton.edu Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Routing Periodicals We stopped routing journals a number of years ago. Issues would get buried on people's desk and sometimes lost. But the real problem was that journals would be hard for find and unavailable to users for months after arrival. Fred W. Jenkins, Ph.D. Head of Collection Management & Professor University of Dayton Library 110 Roesch Library (937) 229-4272 300 College Park (937) 229-4590 (fax) Dayton, OH 45469-1360