Re: Circulating journals -policy issues (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 28 Jan 1999 23:45 UTC
2 messages, 77 lines: (1)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:01:35 -0500 From: Cecilia Leathem <cleathem@LIBRARY.MIAMI.EDU> Subject: Re: Circulating journals -policy issues Susan, In our main library, we allow faculty and grad students to charge out bound periodicals. In the Marine Sciences library (which is located on a separate campus),I believe that even individual issues can circulate--patrons are usually grad students, researchers and faculty. We also have some samll departmental libraries--Math, Architecture--and they probably have informal arrangements with their faculty to allow bound volumes to circulate. It has been a positive experience for Richter Library and we have not experienced many problems with lost material or a failure to return volumes. Cecilia Leathem Head, Serials Cataloging & Binding Otto G. Richter Library University of Miami 1300 Memorial Drive Coral Gables, FL 33124-0320 Tel: 305 284-4719 Fax: 305 665-7352 <cleathem@LIBRARY.MIAMI.EDU> (2)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:03:28 -0600 From: Nancy Hanks <nancy.hanks@SRU.EDU> Subject: Re: Circulating journals -policy issues When we had closed stacks, we used to circulate our loose issues and microforms for in-house use only. Once we brought up NOTIS, we circulated items online. For about 1,800 titles (and I'm sure your collection is much larger!), it took about 2 hours per day to barcode and enter the barcodes into NOTIS and used around 20,000 barcodes per year. I'd be happy to supply additional details or answer questions if you think it would be useful. Good luck. Nancy Nancy S. Hanks nancy.hanks@sru.edu Serials Librarian Phone:(724) 738-2658 Bailey Library Fax: (724) 738-2661 Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, PA 16057 At 11:59 AM 1/27/99 -0800, Susan Scheiberg wrote: >Hi-- > >I'm hoping that you can help me! The idea of circulating journals is being >floated around our libraries. Of course, some of our librarians will greet >this idea with joy and huzzahs; others will be horrified at the >ramifications. Would you be willing to share your experience and/or >policies about circulating journals? Just for background, USC is a major >research university with (relatively) large holdings and 15 libraries >within the University Libraries system, and currently we do not circulate >any journals. I'd especially appreciate hearing from other large >universities! > >If this discussion was recently held and archived, would someone be so kind >as to point me there? > >Thanks in advance, > >Susan > >Susan Scheiberg >Team Leader, Serials Acquisitions (aka Serials Librarian) >Doheny Library G24A >University of Southern California >Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 >Telephone: (213)740-7355 >FAX: (213)740-0959 >E-mail: scheiber@usc.edu