Re: Routine Claiming (2 messages) David Goodman 07 Jan 2003 23:38 UTC
I agree with Rick that it is even more important to make sure the online keeps coming--for one thing, users notice it sooner. And I apologize if I sounded a little sharp. Dr. David Goodman Princeton University Library and Palmer School of Library & Inf ormation Science, Long Island University dgoodman@princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcia Tuttle <tuttle@EMAIL.UNC.EDU> Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 6:25 pm Subject: Routine Claiming (2 messages) > ----------1 > From: "Rick Anderson" < rickand@unr.edu> > Subject: RE: Routine claiming (was RE: Faxon/Rowecom/divine) > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:34:10 -0800 > > > If you aren't claiming, you have apparently ma de the decision > > that it doesn't matter whether the users find the article they > > want or not. > > Actually, just the opposite -- we've decided, based on pretty > incontrovertible usage statistics, that close management of our online > collection (w hich gets very heavy use) will give our users much better > access than close management of our print collection (which gets > very light > use). > > > In that case, why are you even subscribing? > > Because in the vast majority of cases, simply having the subscription > actually gets us the issues. In many cases where we claim, in > fact, the > issues we're claiming would have come even if we hadn't claimed them. > > But listen, I'm sure no one on this list wants a repeat of the huge > andvociferous check-in thread that we endured last fall. My boss > and I have an > artic le coming out on the check-in question in volume 27, no. 1 of > _LibraryCollections, Acquisitions & Technical Services_. Its title > is "Implementing > the Unthinkable: The Demise of Journal Check-in at the University > of Nevada, > Reno." This artic le details our arguments against check-in, routine > claiming and binding. I think I'll do the subscribers of this list > a better > service by referring them to the article than by rehashing it here and > responding to all the reactions. However, if anyone wishes to > contact me > off-list with specific questions, I'll be happy to respond. > > ------------- > Rick Anderson > University of Nevada, Reno > rickand@unr.edu > > ----------2 > Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:29:56 +1000 > From: Jean Dartnall <Jean.Dartnall@jcu.edu.au> > Subject: Re: Routine claiming (was RE: Faxon/Rowecom/divine) > > We are a regional university library with about 3000 serials > subscriptions using > a mix of agents and direct purchase. (divine in Australia does not > seem to be > having the same problems as the US branch, thankfully). We have > considered the > value of agents and definitely think that one of the benefits is > the ease of > o nline claiming. We find that online claiming has also reduced the > volume of > unneeded claims and unwanted duplicates to cover some of the issues > Rickraises. Staff time spent on this task is about the same though > so I continue to > thi nk about options. > > Jean > > -- > Jean Dartnall > Serials Librarian > > Jean.Dartnall@jcu.edu.au > > (07) 4781 4492 (tel) > (07) 4781 5886 (fax) > > James Cook University > Townsville > Queensland 4811 > N