Re: Binding incomplete (4 messages) ERCELAA@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu 28 May 1999 16:06 UTC
4 messages: 1)_____ Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:13:39 -0400 From: "Dawson, Julie" <julie.dawson@PTSEM.EDU> Subject: Re: Binding incomplete (Jana Comerford) After all efforts to locate the missing issue(s) via vendor (2-3 claims at 6 week intervals), publisher (2-3 claims), ILL, and exchange lists are exhausted, we wait about 6 months before binding incomplete. The missing issues are noted on the inside cover and also in the OPAC record. If we have a microfilm copy of the missing issue(s) , a note is added directing the patron to see the microfilm no. and we do not try to get a hard copy. Julie Eng Dawson Systems/Technical Services Librarian Princeton Theological Seminary Phone: 609-497-7944 Fax: 609-497-1826 2)_____ Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:37:26 -0400 From: Bernadette Jones <bjones@SMCVT.EDU> Subject: Re: Binding incomplete We bind only when complete. If the issues are flat-backed, I put a call # on each issue and a sticker that says Shelve with Bound Periodicals. For magazines, I insert plastic "no punch magazine holders" and store in a 3-ring binder that has clear plastic pockets on front and spine. I can then label the contents. When the volume is completed and bound, I remove the labels, and the binder and holders can be reused. Bernadette Jones Periodicals Department Saint Michael's College Library & Information Services Winooski Park Colchester, VT 05439 e-mail: bjones@smcvt.edu Phone: 802-654-2404 3)_____ Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 10:35:14 -0600 From: John Lucas <jlucas@ROWLAND.UMSMED.EDU> Subject: Re: Binding incomplete (Angela Piercy) For Sherry AND all: We do not BIND incomplete volumes. (with a couple of exceptions) We have them on shelves in Tech Svcs where we keep them by year, then alphabetical. Our online catalog shows that the volume is in incompletes(1970 ==>), and most of the time (recent years) shows the issues we have. Reference calls up first when our patron asks about it, we double check to locate the item before the person comes upstairs. They borrow long enougth to make the copy and return it to us. We try the usual sources, Claiming repeatedly , BackMed, Backfile dealers and if unable to locate it remains on our shelves until we find the issue. I periodically will relist with dealers after holding off for a few years (you never know what they get). I may soon have to go back and evaluate our 1900 <==>1970's with the possibility of discarding them Sometimes we find that a supplement was published and sponsored by drug company or other company and was ONLY FOR A CERTAIN CATAGORY OF SUBSCRIBER (physician or researcher, never for an institution) If there is no way that we will ever get that issue I will create a page insert indicating that the volume was bound without it and why. This gets one less volume of these shelves and makes it available to our patron. When we discover that WE GOOFED when we had the volume bound, It goes back to have the issue added. John Lucas Serials Librarian University of Mississippi Medical Center 2500 North State St Jackson, MS 39216-4505 (PH) (601) 984-1277 4)_____ Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:59:58 -0400 From: David Goodman <dgoodman@PRINCETON.EDU> Subject: Re: Binding incomplete (4 messages) Generally, we bind in a temporary binding immediately without waiting for replacement. When the replacement comes, then we bind normally. In the meantime the vol. is unmistakably visible on the shelf as a problem, and additional issues do not get lost. The exception is for titles which we suspect we will never be able to complete, and we just bind them normally right away. Most of them are exchanges, 3rd world items, etc., and are marked on the flat file: can't claim, since the problems with these tend to recur. The nature of our collection is such that we have a many like this. David Goodman Biology Librarian, Princeton University Library dgoodman@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~biolib/ phone: 609-258-3235 fax: 609-258-2627