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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:24:49 -0800
From: fatmeh <fc01@AUB.EDU.LB>
Subject: Re: Security for loose journals (2 messages)

I find this would like to know more about the desribed tags. Where and how
to get them?

Fatme

Fatme Charafeddine
Serials Librarian/Jafet Library
American University of Beirut
PO Box 11-0236
Beirut Lebanon

Fax 961 1 744 703
Tel. 961 1 350 000 (2608)

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> ----------(1)
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:10:26 -0600
> From: Dana Belcher <dbelcher.MATHSCI.ECOK@MAILCLERK.ECOK.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Security for loose journals (Jody Morris)
>
> We have the exact same setup.  We tag the loose issues just like our
> books, videos, and cds.  However, the tags that go in the books say "date
> due" on them.  The tags we use for the magazines/journals look like
> barcodes (they are the same size as the date due stickers).  Years ago, we
> had problems with students ripping them out (but they do the same with the
> books and other media) and taking the journals, but we haven't had any
> problems with this in the past 3 years.  We do not remove the tags when we
> send them to the bindery.
>
> We have had our loose issues available to the patrons since the library
> opened.  I think it is very important to provide this access and the
> "browsing" of issues for research (especially by the faculty).
>
> Dana Belcher, Periodicals Librarian
> East Central University
> Ada, OK
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:38:06 -0500
> From: "Morris, Jody" <Jody.Morris@FEMA.GOV>
> Subject: Security for loose journals
>
> I know this topic has come up many times before, but....
>
> I am at a small, specialized library.  We carry about 400 serials and bind
> about half that, maybe less.  We have a Checkpoint system that operates on
> radio frequency and currently use square tags in the books and on the
videos
> that set off the alarm.
>
> Currently, we keep all loose, yet-to-be-bound journals locked up, but due
to
> a renovation that will give us a LOT more room, we are considering keeping
> the loose journals available for students to just take them off the
shelves.
> I am worried about this, and have been asked to find out what other
> libraries are doing.
>
> If your library has a similar Checkpoint system and you  tag your loose
> journals, could you email me and tell me what you use and how well they
> work?  Do students just find them and rip them out?  Also, when you bind
the
> journals, how do you remove the tags?  Anything else you can tell me would
> be helpful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jody Morris
> National Emergency Training Center Library
> FEMA
> Emmitsburg, MD
>
> jody.morris@fema.gov
> (301) 447-1354
>
> ----------(2)
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:49:37 -0600
> From: Karen Chobot <karen.chobot@NDSCS.NODAK.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Security for loose journals (Jody Morris)
>
>
> HI Jody - we don't use Checkpoint in our library here, but I have worked
> in 2 other libraries where we did use checkpoint and kept the journals on
> open shelves.  We followed pretty much the same procedure in both
> places.  Also, both were fairly small collections and open areas, so it
> was easy to keep an eye on what patrons were doing to the journals in the
> stacks.
>
> We only put the square "targets" on those items where we were actually
> concerned about theft.  In the medical library we got most back titles on
> microform and didn't keep the paper after about 3 years, so theft and
> damage were less a problem than they might be in other areas.  In one
> library we had square labels made that were just larger than the
> "target"; and, we put the "target" on the front cover in a prominent
> place and covered it with the label.  I can't remember exactly what we
> had on there, something with the library name on it I think.  We had to
> hand those around the gate system since we had no other way of
> desensitizing the targets.  In the other library we put the targets
> inside the pockets and had date due cards that went in the pockets that
> neutralized the radio frequency.  That, I think, is the recommended
> method, and it worked very well.
>
> Most patrons never did figure out about the target in the pocket, but
> they did figure out if the security device was under the label.
> Occasionally we did find that they had been cut out and removed - we
> would find the loose ones on the floor or in the stacks.  But since we
> did check out journals in both places, theft was not as much of a problem
> as it would be if we did not check them out.  We also had a cheap and
> convenient copy machine easily accessible, so making personal copies was
> easy.
>
> In neither place did we bind the journals, so I don't know what you would
> want to do there.  I think that the method of putting them in the pockets
> would work best for you, because then the pockets could be removed easily
> before binding.  You do not want to leave them in because I understand
> that having more than one target can confuse the machine, sometimes going
> off and sometimes not.
>
> In my present library we also keep the magazines in closed shelves, and I
> am not as happy with it as I was with the other two systems.  It makes a
> lot more work for circulation and keeps the students from happily
> browsing the piles of issues.  If having too many things out on the
> shelves does not work for you, you might look into one of those shelving
> systems where you can keep a year's worth out and available, and the back
> issues in storage.  That is what we did in the library where we put the
> targets on the front, since we knew we would always want them there.
>
> I hope these ideas and thoughts are useful. Karen
>
> 701-671-2385
> Karen.Chobot@ndscs.nodak.edu
>
> Visit the library web site at www.ndscs.nodak.edu/information/library
>