I've already emailed Kim offlist (short answer: Current to date we
pull, eg. "Current 1 year" on a January pull left all of 2004 on the
shelf.  However, go there today and you will find a year and a half.
The Chicago Tribune, which is "Current 3 weeks" for us, if pulled today
would leave June 20 fwd on the shelf; go to that stack next Monday and
you will find the same thing, in effect, 4 weeks Current.  An inexact
science, perhaps, but it never leaves one with less on the shelf than
the holdings record will show.

Susan's letter brings a question, though - if "Current year plus one"
means 2004 to date, what does "Current 1 year" mean?

Jeanette L. Skwor
Cofrin Library
University of WI-Green Bay
(920) 465-2670

"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
get you through times of no libraries."
                              Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog

-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Davis
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:28 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Question about holdings statements (Kim Garrett)

Good question!  I don't know if there is a standard for this, and if
there is one, I'd like to know about it.

In practice, we have used "current issues" as a rather vague, catch all
phrase.  The exact nature of the "current" depends on how many issues
are required to overflow the shelves or how frequently we can pull the
older issues.
We don't have the staff to enforce this very precisely.

We have used current year to mean issues in the current calendar year,
not a year's worth, but current 3 months does mean the latest 3 months
worth.
We have also used the phrase "current year plus one" to mean 2004 to
date.

Good luck!  And if there is no standard, my advice is to be as
consistent as possible and document what you've decided.

Susan

Susan Davis
Head, Electronic Periodicals Management Department University at Buffalo
(SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY  14260-2210
(716) 645-2784
(716) 645-5955 fax
unlsdb@buffalo.edu

--On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:12 AM -0400 Bob Persing
<persing@POBOX.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

> [Moderator note: please send replies to Kim directly, or copy her if
> you reply to the list]
>
> Hello,
>
> I contacted BCR about this and they suggested posting the question to
> SERIALST... which I don't subscribe to.
>
> I am wondering if there is a written definition or set guidelines
> anywhere for "current issues", "current year", "current two years",
> etc.  It is my understanding that current issues equals January
> 2005 thru present day, current year equals January 2004 through
> present day, etc.  I just need to know if this is correct or not.
>
> As I said, I don't subscribe to the list, so if anyone would have an
> answer to this question, I would greatly appreciate a direct response.
>
> Thank you!
> Kim Garrett
> Library Assistant III, Acquisitions
> Des Moines University Library
> kim.garrett@dmu.edu <mailto:kim.garrett@dmu.edu>
>
>