8 messages: (1)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:19:51 -0400 From: "van Sickle, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Vansickle@trincoll.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals We have little demand for periodicals to circulate, since everyone here goes to online whenever possible. We do not circulate to students, and we would oppose a change in this policy. Faculty may designate students such as TAs to borrow on their behalf, and we allow faculty to borrow periodicals. We have had problems with a few faculty who borrowed journal issues and didn't return them despite repeated requests. We had to block their library privileges until the items were returned. We recently decided not to circulate newspapers or Consumer Reports to anyone. We keep CR behind the reference desk; otherwise it walks out the door. -Jennifer Jennifer van Sickle MLS Serials Librarian/Sciences Coordinator Trinity College Library 300 Summit St. Hartford, CT USA 06106 Phone: 860-297-2250 Fax: 860-297-2251 jennifer.vansickle@trincoll.edu -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:52:41 -0500 Sender: "SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum" From: Sarah Sanford <ssanford@GUSTAVUS.EDU> Subject: Circulation of Periodicals At 01:52 PM 10/19/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Hello all! > >I am new to the serial listserv, so please excuse my inquiry if it is >repetitive. I am researching which libraries circulate their periodicals >collection, what the loan period is, etc., in hopes to reconsider the >decision NOT to circulate periodicals. For those institutions that do not >circulate periodicals, please provide a brief explanation or basis for >that decision. > >Thank you! > >Sarah > >-- > >Sarah Sanford >Serials Manager >Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library >Gustavus Adolphus College >St. Peter, MN 56082 >Phone: 507-933-7562 >Fax: 507-933-6292 (2)------------------- Date: 20 Oct 2005 09:24:27 -0400 From: Pamela Contakos <pamela.contakos@sit.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals We circulate periodicals only to faculty. They get a week check-out period with no renewal. Most of the time this is not a problem as many of our print journals are also available online. However, faculty have a habit of keeping the journals for much longer than a week (they get 4 months with other items). We have a couple of very specialized journals that are not available online and students who are looking for them are often disappointed to find they are checked out and more than likely overdue. As more and more journals are available online for research purposes my inclination is to make our ciruclation policy more broad and allow for things that are online to circulate for a limited amount of time. However, the ones that are not online are already causing problems and separating them out with another circulation policy could cause a real headache. I am interested in hearing if anyone else circulates periodicals widely and how it has worked for them. -- Pamela Contakos Assistant Director Donald B. Watt Library School for International Training Brattleboro, VT 05301 (802)258-3356 pamela.contakos@sit.edu (3)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:13:23 -0500 From: Barbara Pope <bpope@pittstate.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals My problem with circulating periodicals is that periodicals are very difficult, and sometimes expensive, to replace. We have to depend on the Ebsco missing issue bank, the publisher, or the nice folks on BACKSERV to help us out. We do not circulate periodicals to anyone except faculty for a short time (I think it's about a week). Very rarely, we might loan a journal to a student for a couple of hours if he needs it to make a class presentation or if he needs to scan a picture that is bigger than our scanner. Sometimes, we loan them out through interlibrary loan, but again, that is pretty rare. It has become even more rare since our library has access to about 20,000 journals online in different sources like JSTOR, Gale databases, Ebscohost databases, Directory of Open Access Journals, etc. Even if a student doesn't have money for photocopies, several of our databases allow the patron to download the article or email it to himself so he can print it off later. Barbara Pope, MALS Reference/Periodicals Librarian Axe Library Pittsburg State University Pittsburg KS 66762 (620) 235-4884 bpope@pittstate.edu (4)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:31:31 -0400 From: "Edwards, Mary" <meedwards@aii.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals We circulate issues of our magazines once the latest issue comes in. We have a few problems with some not coming back, but not a huge one. I feel that it's better to circulate them than to have them taken. It seems to work for us. Mary Edwards Librarian Art Institute of California - Los Angeles 2900 31st Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-314-6154 meedwards@edmc.edu (5)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:30:09 -0400 rom: "Edwards, Mary" <meedwards@aii.edu> Subject: RE: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals Sarah, We circulate all but the current issue for 28 days. Seems to work well for us, although we do have a few that don't come back. Not too big an issue (pardon the pun) for us, though. Like I mentioned in another post, it's better to circulate than to have them taken. Mary Edwards Librarian Art Institute of California - Los Angeles 2900 31st Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-314-6154 meedwards@edmc.edu (6)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:26:50 -0700 From: "Carol Morse" <MorsCa@wwc.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals We let the periodicals (bound or not) circulate for 1 day, 3 days for grad students. We do lose some, but some of the losses come from items never checked out anyway. Use is still way down because of online resources like Ebsco. What I have noticed is very little vandalism, and that makes it worth it, in my opinion. We don't actually barcode everything, since it's expensive. We barcode the titles we know are more likely to circulate. The Circulation workers are trained to barcode at checkout for the others. That gets interesting. Sometimes they attach the item record to a book bib or whatever, but the tech services staff runs reports and usually finds these anomalies, so we can clean them up without too much drama. Hope this helps. Carol Morse ******************************************** Carol Morse Serials Librarian Walla Walla College Library Periodicals Dept. 104 S. College Ave. College Place, WA 99324-1159 morsca@wwc.edu 509) 527-2684; fax 509) 527-2001 ********************************************* (7)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:38:15 -0500 From: "John Lucas" <jlucas@rowland.umsmed.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals Sarah: As a Medical Library, our needs can be different than for a General Academic Library. Bound journals circulate for 3 days. Unbound journal issues DO NOT CIRCULATE. We security strip every issue, & still come up with missing issues It is a pain but it has reduced our incomplete volumes. Incomplete volumes, due to missing, unclaimable, or non-received issues are kept in Tech Services shelved by year then alphabetical. It is indicated as such in our online catalog. Requests for issues are filled out by the patron, given to Reference or Circulation, then sent up to us. We copy and send down by the next day. However, mostly the requests come in during the day, Reference calls up to us, we make sure we can find the volume, and Reference sends the person up, to take the issue, copy and immediately return to us. JOHN John Lucas Serials Librarian University of Mississippi Medical Center 2500 North State St Jackson, MS 39216-4505 (PH) (601) 984-1277 (FAX) ( 601) 984-1262 JLUCAS@ROWLAND.UMSMED.EDU (8)------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:10:10 -0400 From: Eduardo Gil <gile@mail.montclair.edu> Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Circulation of Periodicals At Montclair State University Library we circulate our print periodicals as a courtesy to our faculty and graduate assistants. We allow 5 issues for 5 days. Very limited problems over the years. Eduardo Gil <gile@mail.montclair.edu>
