For some additional thoughts on this topic, see the June 2006 issue of
Against the Grain.  The "Group Therapy" column (p. 67-68) is devoted to "To
Check In or Not to Check In" - there are three responses to Rick
Anderson's "gripe" - I prepared one of the responses together with a member
of the serials team.

Pamela Bluh

Past President, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
(ALCTS) a division of the American Library Association

and

Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768

410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh@umaryland.edu

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From: Barbara Pope <bpope@PITTSTATE.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:49:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Eliminating Periodicals Check-in

> Hello.  I have not actually worked at a library that did this, but I
> can imagine some reasons for needing to do so, such as staff time
> required to do check-in, etc.  However, one primary argument I can
> see against it is how would you know what issues of a particular
> journal you actually have in the building if you don't keep a record
> somewhere?  In every library I have worked at in close to 12 years,
>  patrons will ask if a particular issue is available.  From a
> patron's perspective, it would seem frustrating if there was no way
> to find out if an issue was available. Also, how can you do claiming
> if you don't know what you have received?
>
> Just my $.02.
>
> Barbara Pope, MALS
> Periodicals/Reference Librarian
> Axe Library
> Pittsburg State University
> Pittsburg KS  66762
> 620-235-4884
> bpope@pittstate.edu
>
> > I am trying to find information about eliminating periodicals check-in.
I
> > found a few articles written several years ago about this topic, but was
> > wondering if there is anything recent?  I read that Rick Anderson at the
U
> > of Nevada-Reno is a big proponent of this.  Has anyone else done a
similar
> > initiative at your library?  If so, would you mind sharing your
> > experience?  I an investigating this as an option here at UVA, but need
> > some compelling facts to make it happen.  Anything you can share would be
> > great!
> >
> > Ophelia
> >
> > Ophelia Payne
> > Serials Cataloging Coordinator
> > Alderman Library
> > University of Virginia
> > PO Box 400108
> > Charlottesville, VA 22904-4108
> > 434-924-0933 (office)
> > 434-982-4579 (fax)
> >
> >
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