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Subject: Saving the mailing label
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:26:43 -0600
From: Martha Coleman <mcoleman@UAFORTSMITH.EDU>

We keep a file of mailing labels.  Our wonderful serials clerk (no make
that goddess), Juanita, works very hard to be sure we have all the info
on a current label.  Now that electronic access to some paper
subscriptions is available using info from the mailing label, this
comes in very handy.  It isn't anything fancy; sometimes the wrapper is
filed or the label is cut of the plastic and taped to an 8.5 x 11 piece
of scrap paper, or a photocopy is made.

>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: British Journal of Criminology -- Dennis Goodyear
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:16:30 -0500
>From: GERRE WESCOTT <WESCOTT@LYCOMING.EDU>
>
>
>Hi Everyone
>
>Granted I only check in 800 journals now (it used to be over 1100) but
>I'm the one who does everything from soup to nuts concerning periodicals
>and that includes opening all the packages.
>
>There have been many times I've sorted through the waste basket when
>I've discovered a problem with the journal in hand that wasn't
>immediately apparent when I took off the wrapping.
>
>Might not work for everyone.
>
>Gerre
>
>Gerre Wescott
>Periodicals Technician
>Snowden Library
>Lycoming College
>700 College Place
>Williamsport PA 17701-5192
>570-321-4089 - phone
>570-321-4090 - fax
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: British Journal of Criminology -- Dylan McDonald
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:19:05 -0700
>From: Dennis Goodyear <dgoodyea@DU.EDU>
>Organization: University of Denver
>
>
>On the subject of important information being prematurely tossed out
>with
>packaging material when opening mail, for that very reason at DU Penrose
>Library we keep all envelopes, boxes, inserts, etc. with the issues
>until
>they are actually checked in.  This has saved us many times when we
>realized
>we needed information from a label or discovered that a significant
>change
>was being announced on an insert or attachment that didn't look
>important at
>first.
>
>I'd be interested in hearing from other serials staff as to how they
>manage
>this problem (opportunity?).
>
>Dennis Goodyear
>Serials Unit Supervisor
>Penrose Library
>University of Denver
>dgoodyea@du.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: British Journal of Criminology -- Marcella Lesher
>> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:16:29 -0700
>> From: Dylan McDonald <dmcdonal@BOISESTATE.EDU>
>>
>>
>> The second issue received at Boise State included a half page note
>> stating that the issue was reprinted and sent because of the wrong
>> contents being printed on the cover of the first issue sent.  When I
>> compared the two, the first issue sent had the contents of one of the
>> previous issues.  We discarded the first issue and kept the corrected
>> copy.  I wish that publishers would include these notes as an insert
>> inside the issue (not attached to the issue but loose, near the front
>> cover) because otherwise when students or whoever opens the mail, these
>> often get tossed with the rest of the packaging material.
>>
>> Dylan McDonald
>> Library Assistant 1-Serials
>> Albertsons Library
>> Boise State University
>> PO Box 46
>> Boise, ID  83707-0046
>> dmcdonal@boisestate.edu
>> (208) 426-3400
>> (208) 426-5424 fax
>