We have about 60 newspaper subscriptions (not all are daily).

A few years ago we decided to stop checking in those daily newspapers
which didn't need any special attention:
         - we retain and bind
         - we have more than 1 sub & need to distribute to branches
         - we do claim within an hour of not receiving (5 direct
deliver dailies)
         - title is routed to staff

The result is that we check-in 22 of the 60.
We found that this does save us a fair bit of time & we have had no
complaints from users or staff.
Every 1-2 months we look on the shelves at the non-checked in titles
to make sure they are still coming.

Patty Gallilee
Head, Acquisitions/Serials Division
W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC  CANADA   V5A 1S6

email:  plg@sfu.ca
Voice: 778 / 782-3916
FAX:   778 / 782-6579

At 08:22 AM 04/10/2007, you wrote:
>All,
>
>Does everyone check in daily newspapers or is it common practice to not
>do so?  I recall people talking on this list about not checking in any
>periodicals at all, but I would rather hear from someone who does check
>things in but has made a decision to not check in certain titles due to
>the daily chore.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Lilah
>
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