I am kind of confused about your question.  For example, what is the purpose of the label?  A call number or serial title?  Whether you should do it might depend on the purpose for doing so and how you use it.  Many serials are labeled on the spine with title, volume, issue, and date anyway.

As for us, we don't label our individual serials issues that are shelved in current periodicals.  Student employees in my department know where to shelve issues.  I have to do a little more training when it comes to supplements or other issues where the title is not obvious.  We just stamp with a our date/ownership stamp and barcode them with check-in.  However, some of our journals (mostly JSTOR titles) we don't send to the bindery.  We just transfer them to our bound periodicals stacks at the end of the year or volume.  We put a label on the front of them to indicate where they should be shelved and label the princeton file they are in.

Does this help?

Sincerely,

Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
1701 S. Broadway
Pittsburg KS  66762
620-235-4884
bpope@pittstate.edu

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From: "Abbigail C Gregg" <acgregg@GENEVA.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:59:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Labelling serials

We just stamp ours with a personalized library stamper that also has a changeable date on it, once on the cover and once somewhere inside.  For newspapers we stamp every section.

Abbigail Gregg
Library Technician
Geneva College - McCartney Library
acgregg@geneva.edu
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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Emma Antobam
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 12:05 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Labelling serials

Hello,

What is your library using to label their serials? Here, during the receiving process we label each issue received by hand. This began some years ago and continues now. Prior to this, a separate printer was used for labeling serials but that ceased.

Just wanted to get an idea of what other libraries are doing in this process & what tools are working for them. Those who use Millennium as their Integrated Library System, are you using the capabilities in the serials module to activate a label print out during each check-in? I normally deactivate it since we've not set that up effectively.

regards,

emma

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