4 messages: 1)_____ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:53:15 -0600 From: "McCracken, Leah" <mccracke@DAFFY.CORD.EDU> Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (Marcia Trauernight) We do allow serials- periodicals- to circulate among faculty and staff. There is a two day check out. Students can ask the serials coordinator- me- for special permission to check out a periodical. They usually only need it for a few hours -for a class- or to make a color copy somewhere else on campus. We do not have any grad students at our college but those who do have borrowing privilege here can not check out periodicals. Most other serials are kept in Reference and can not leave the library without written permission from the librarian at the Reference desk. Hope this helps. Leah McCracken Serials Coordinator Carl B. Ylvisaker Library Concordia College 901 8 Street South Moorhead MN 56562 mccracke@cord.edu (218) 299-4252 -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of ERCELAA@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 8:33 AM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (Marcia Trauernight) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:14:16 -0500 From: Marcia Trauernicht <mstwml@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU> Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (Sophia Fragou) I haven't seen any responses on the list to Sophie's request on circulation policies for serials, particularly in academic libraries. I am also interested in finding out if other libraries allow serials to circulate, and if so, what restrictions apply. Currently my library does not allow any serials to leave the building (current issues, bound volumes or film). Now some faculty and grad. students are asking that they be allowed to check out journals and take them back to their office. Our director is interested in examining this question more fully, so we are in the processing of gathering information on the pros and cons of this issue. Any information, either for or against circulating serials, would be greatly appreciated. If you do allow the circulation of serials at your library, please give an outline of who is eligible to check them out, the loan period, etc. Thanks for your help! Marcia S. Trauernicht Head of Cataloging/Serials Wallace Library Rochester Institute of Technology 90 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5604 (716) 475-7292 mstwml@rit.edu 2)_____ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:43:57 -0600 From: Cheryl Riley <riley@LIBSERV.CMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (MarciaTrauernight) We are a medium sized comprehensive regional university. We circulate our bound volumes overnight. Fines are equal to those we assign for reserve materials (about 4 times higher). Cheryl 3)_____ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:45:07 -0500 From: "Gilbert, Debra" <Debra.Gilbert@PURCHASE.EDU> Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (Marcia Tra uernight) I am a periodicals assistant in a mid-sized academic library. Our current periodicals are kept in an "open" periodicals room where people are free to browse the shelves, but current issues can not be checked out. Bound volumes do circulate for 2 days to only students and faculty of the university, not outside borrowers. Debra Gilbert 4)______ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:58:35 -0600 From: Kaye Talley <KayeT@mail.uca.edu> Subject: Re: Journals circulation in academic/branch libraries (Marcia Trauernight) The University of Central Arkansas' official policy is that no journals, bound or unbound, circulate. However, we do allow faculty to checkout bound or unbound issues to take to their offices. We don't advertise this exception to the rule but if a faculty member asks about it we will let them. The faculty member must make arrangements with me before checking anything out. This has to be done during regular office hours (8-5 Monday-Friday); they can't just show up on the weekend or at night. My student workers are instructed to not let anyone check anything out. Once they've contacted me, they can send a graduate student over to actually get the material. Our bound volumes are not barcoded so we do a manual type of checkout in the Serials Department. Sometimes a student will need to a color photocopy of an illustration and we will let the student take the volume to get a color copy. We don't have a color copier in the library unfortunately. We don't have a set period of time for checkout. We ask them how long they need the material and go from there. This has worked for us fairly well; we've only had a few people that we've had to track down to get our material back, most are really good about returning it in a timely fashion. Our university has approximately 9,000 students and 300 faculty so you can get an idea of our size. Our current journal holdings are approximately 1000 titles. Kaye Talley Kaye M. Talley Associate Professor Coordinator of Technical Services Torreyson Library University of Central Arkansas 201 Donaghey Conway, Arkansas 72035 kayet@mail.uca.edu 501-450-5225 501-450-5208(fax)
