Here at Montclair State University the mail gets to us in the late
afternoon, mail is open by student workers - newspapers and news
magazine issues are checked-in right away by the Periodicals Principal
Library Assistant - Date stamped by students - the issues go out not
even 24 hours - the rest of the scholarly and technical periodicals may
take 1.5 days before they end up on the shelves.

Ed Gil
Periodicals Librarian

Hoyte, Daniel wrote:
> It has been a couple of years since I was active in the serials side of
> the house. These were the processing goals that I established when I was
> the serials/acquisition tech in our law library. These were based on
> what time of day, and what day of the week items would be delivered.
> When the person responsible for the filing also has a bearing on when
> things were processed.
>
> Material				delivery time
> time to shelf
> Daily newspapers 			morning drop
> 9 am
> Daily newspapers 			afternoon mail 		9 am
> next day
> Newspapers less than daily 	mail				9 am
> next day
> Microform
> Processed each Friday for weekend filing
> Loose-leaf
> Processed Tuesday for Wednesday filing and Friday for Saturday filing
> Newsletters				Most arrived Monday
> Processed Tuesday for Wednesday filing
>
> The rest of the processing was specific to law libraries, and while
> serial are probably not as interesting.
>
>
> Daniel Hoyte
> Senior Library Systems Technician
> Chapman University Leatherby Libraries
> (714) 532-7745
> hoyte@chapman.edu
> AIM/Yahoo IM: chaphoyte
> "$DO || ! $DO ; try
> try: command not found"
>  --Yoda
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Spindler, Holly
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:30 AM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] Turn-Around Time for Journals
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> Our library is taking a look at some of our daily procedures in hopes of
> becoming more efficient and a question arose about the turn around time
> of processing incoming journals.
>
>
>
> I was hoping some of you might share how long it takes from the time
> your journals arrive in the mail to when they are placed on the shelves
> and ready for patrons to view?  A week, a day, or a few hours?  I'm just
> looking for an estimate or average.  Any information would be helpful.
>
>
>
> Thanks so much,
>
>
>
> Holly Spindler
>
> Serials
>
> Kettering Medical Library &
>
> KCMA Learning Commons
>
> holly.spindler@khnetwork.org
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