> How do you distinguish between titles you check in and those
> you don't when
> you are sorting the incoming mail?

Good question -- and our practice has actually changed a bit since the
article was published.  Our students do a quick title search in the
system for each issue that comes in; this allows them to detect those
(few) titles that get special treatment and those that are what we call
Mystery Guests.  Those that turn up in the system are shelved; if they
turn up in the system but have no place in the shelves, then our serials
clerk does some follow-up research.  But we do not maintain updated
checkin records, and the clerk does not spend hours and hours trying to
determine the ultimate truth about the status of any mysterious print
title.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu