Re: Turn-Around Time for Journals Eduardo Gil 24 Mar 2009 16:09 UTC
Here at Montclair State University the mail gets to us in the late afternoon, mail is open by student workers - newspapers and news magazine issues are checked-in right away by the Periodicals Principal Library Assistant - Date stamped by students - the issues go out not even 24 hours - the rest of the scholarly and technical periodicals may take 1.5 days before they end up on the shelves. Ed Gil Periodicals Librarian Hoyte, Daniel wrote: > It has been a couple of years since I was active in the serials side of > the house. These were the processing goals that I established when I was > the serials/acquisition tech in our law library. These were based on > what time of day, and what day of the week items would be delivered. > When the person responsible for the filing also has a bearing on when > things were processed. > > Material delivery time > time to shelf > Daily newspapers morning drop > 9 am > Daily newspapers afternoon mail 9 am > next day > Newspapers less than daily mail 9 am > next day > Microform > Processed each Friday for weekend filing > Loose-leaf > Processed Tuesday for Wednesday filing and Friday for Saturday filing > Newsletters Most arrived Monday > Processed Tuesday for Wednesday filing > > The rest of the processing was specific to law libraries, and while > serial are probably not as interesting. > > > Daniel Hoyte > Senior Library Systems Technician > Chapman University Leatherby Libraries > (714) 532-7745 > hoyte@chapman.edu > AIM/Yahoo IM: chaphoyte > "$DO || ! $DO ; try > try: command not found" > --Yoda > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum > [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Spindler, Holly > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:30 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. >