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Re: Turn-Around Time for Journals Williams, Mary Welch (24 Mar 2009 14:58 UTC)
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Re: Turn-Around Time for Journals Williams, Mary Welch 24 Mar 2009 14:58 UTC
Holly, Because of workflow here, journals are checked in immediately on arrival and placed on a cart for circulation. The evening workers shelve the journals, so it's several hours between the time that the journals are received and displayed. In a former situation, we checked in journals when the student worker arrived and immediately shelved them. We attempted to schedule student workers so as to handle the journals immediately. If for some reason the student was absent, my associate or I would check the journals in. They never sat in the mail room for protracted periods. So between check in and display would be a matter or minutes. That's usually been the case wherever I've worked in serials, but situations may vary with the availability of help and the work flows of other departments if you have to coordinate with them. Are you thinking of batching check-in to save time? Mary -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Spindler, Holly Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:30 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] Turn-Around Time for Journals Hello All, Our library is taking a look at some of our daily procedures in hopes of becoming more efficient and a question arose about the turn around time of processing incoming journals. I was hoping some of you might share how long it takes from the time your journals arrive in the mail to when they are placed on the shelves and ready for patrons to view? A week, a day, or a few hours? I'm just looking for an estimate or average. Any information would be helpful. Thanks so much, Holly Spindler Serials Kettering Medical Library & KCMA Learning Commons holly.spindler@khnetwork.org **KHN Confidentiality Notice** This message and the accompanying document or attachments may contain information which is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, discuss, disclose, copy, or distribute the contents of this message. If you have received this information in error, please immediately contact the Kettering Health Network representative whose number is listed on the message and destroy all evidence of this correspondence.