Teresa,
We are also a small liberal arts college with just over 300 current periodical titles. We allow faculty and staff to check out our periodicals. We have a binder
with barcoded cards for each title which are used for check out (and internal use stats). We fill out a separate slip with name, date, etc. to track the individual titles. We have a 24 hour check out which does get stretched at times. Faculty and staff
don’t accrue fines so we don’t really have any leverage for timely returns. For those who occasionally forget to return an item, an email is generally all it takes to get it back.
Hope this is helpful.
LeAnne
LeAnne Rumler
Technical Services Librarian, serials
Mossey Library
Hillsdale College
517-607-2405
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Subject: [SERIALST] Checking out serials
Since many libraries no longer bind their serials, I was wondering how many of you allow checkout of serials, including scholarly journals as well as other trade or popular titles you receive.
We are considering checking out serials. What advice do you have for our library?
We are a small liberal arts college with about 250 subscriptions. Currently they get very little usage.
Teresa Grimm
Lakeland University
Plymouth, WI 53073
920.565.1038, ext. 2418
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