I also do a lot of the claiming here, and you're right, I've gone to the stacks many times to check the date on a pocket part to make sure we didn't get it before claiming it. Often we got the material but our check-in card was not updated, with the date on the pocket part I've been able to fix the card.
 
We don't have any student workers in tech services currently. There were a lot of problems in the past and we have part-time filers and processors instead. One of the filers was doing the bulk of the stamping but he got a full time job elsewhere.
 
Melissa Ewing
Serials Assistant
Brennan Law Library
Thomas M Cooley Law School
300 S. Capitol Ave.
PO Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Phone (517) 371-5140 ext. 3433
Fax (517) 334-5715
ewingme@cooley.edu

On 7/15/2010 at 10:32 AM, Sandhya Srivastava <ssrivast@NYIT.EDU> wrote:

Hi Melissa

I used to work in a Law Firm Library years ago and also in other academic Law libraries.  I know it is a lot of work but it is good to have a pocket part date stamped.  It helps users to also know that they are referring to the most current update of the law.  It also brings little used titles to the attention of the librarians when the pocket part is from 2001 and not up to date.  You can then question the vendor as to what happened to the order etc.  All in all it helps.  The serials module is supposed to track this but sometimes if the dates on the claims are off – you can have orders that go a couple of years without proper claiming.

Do you have student workers?  Maybe you do not want to have your library assistants bogged down with date stamping but you can get a student to do this for sure.

 

Sandy Srivastava

Sandhya (Sandy) D. Srivastava

Electronic Resources Librarian

New York Institute of Technology

Wisser Library

Northern Boulevard

Old Westbury, New York 11568-8000

Telephone: (516) 686 - 3790

Fax: (516) 686 - 1152

Email: ssrivast@nyit.edu

 

 

 

 

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa Ewing
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:31 PM
To: SERIALST@list.uvm.edu
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Pocket parts

 

Hi Brenda,

 

Currently we are stamping each one also, but we now have 4 branches. Each branch gets a copy of the state codes for every state and they are all processed at the main branch. The question was asked whether our time couldn't be better spent doing something other than all that stamping. :) I'm curious to see what others outside our little world think.

 

Melissa

 

Melissa Ewing
Serials Assistant
Brennan Law Library
Thomas M Cooley Law School

300 S. Capitol Ave.

PO Box 13038

Lansing, MI 48901
Phone (517) 371-5140 ext. 3433

Fax (517) 334-5715
ewingme@cooley.edu



On 7/14/2010 at  2:20 PM, Brenda Carrillo <bcarrillo@PACIFIC.EDU> wrote:

HI Melissa,

 

At my old Law library, we used to property stamp/date stamp each new supplement part that came in. It wasn't fun, but at least we knew which one was current and already added to the catalog.

 

Hope this helps,

Brenda

 

Brenda Carrillo
University of the Pacific
Library Technical Services
Serials Department
3601 Pacific Ave
Stockton, CA 95211
(209) 946-2798
Fax: (209) 946-2810

 

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa Ewing
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:52 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Pocket parts

To all the law libraries out there: When you check-in pocket parts, do you property stamp each piece or just put them in the books "as is?"

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

Melissa Ewing
Serials Assistant
Brennan Law Library
Thomas M Cooley Law School

300 S. Capitol Ave.

PO Box 13038

Lansing, MI 48901
Phone (517) 371-5140 ext. 3433

Fax (517) 334-5715
ewingme@cooley.edu