Hello, Lilah.  At my library, the answer is "it depends."  On the title,
that is.  For the newspapers like NYT, WSJ, Kansas City Star, the local
newspaper, etc., all of which we get daily because we subscribe, we
check them in.  There are probably at least 5 papers which come from
tiny little towns in our state once a week and we do not subscribe.  We
do not check those in, but we do have bib records.  For the holdings, we
just indicate CURRENT TWO WEEKS ONLY.  Having a bib record makes it more
obvious to reference folks and the public what titles we do have, but
decreases the amount of work our student worker and serials library
assistant have to do.

Barbara Pope
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg KS  66762
bpope@pittstate.edu

Knox, Lilah Mittelstaedt 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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