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Subject: Re: Color coded labeling scheme for journals -- Barbara Blummer
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:18:18 -0400
From: Eddie Mc Laughlin RSHM <McLaughl@MMC.MARYMT.EDU>
Organization: Marymount College Tarrytown

    In the Gloria Gaines Memorial Library we stamp the date received on
the ownership label which is applied to the front cover of the journal.
Many journals are monthly and usually come within the month they are
expected.  I hazard a guess that the color coding system is a time
consuming operation which could be updated in another manner.

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Subject: Re: Color coded labeling scheme for journals -- Barbara Blummer
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:21:13 -0400
From: "McGourty, Elenore M." <mcgourty@WPI.EDU>

Our journals are stamped with a date stamp on the day they are processed
and
shelved.
Our shelves are designed to display the most current issue, and the
previous
issues are stored underneath until they are boxed or bound.

Elenore McGourty
periodicals associate
Worcester Polytechnic Inst.
mcgourty@wpi.edu

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Subject: Re: Color coded labeling scheme for journals -- Barbara Blummer
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:32:06 -0600
From: Cory Meyer <cjmeyer@SALUD.UNM.EDU>

We did something similar, by color coding titles we were going to
cancel...and new titles we had ordered and were expecting.  Instead of
changing the labels however, we printed them on normal white card stock
and placed them in holders.  I then cut colored transparency film to fit
into the holders.  You can see the title through the film, they can be
changed out as needed and the film can be reused over and over again.

Sincerely,
Cory Anne Johnstone Meyer, MLS
Library Information Specialist III
Reference and User Support Services
cjmeyer@salud.unm.edu

Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-5686

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Subject: Color coded labeling scheme for journals
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:11:22 -0400
From: barbara <bablumm@SUPER.ORG>

We are a small special library and our patrons are accustomed to a
color-coded journal labeling scheme which enables them to tell at a glance
when a journal was received.  Journal labels are changed each Monday to
reflect the receipt date of the issue. For instance, one color indicates
the journal was received the current week, another color denotes a journal
was received the previous week, and another color reflects the journal was
received sometime prior to the previous week.

Although our research staff enjoys the service, the frequent changing
of the labels makes it difficult to fit them into the shelf label holder
without damaging them.  The labels tear and wrinkle and have to be
replaced.

We would appreciate responses from libraries providing a similar
service to their patrons.

Thank you in advance!

Barbara Blummer
Center for Computing Sciences
bablumm@super.org