2 messages:

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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 14:57:35 -0500
From: Jeanette Skwor <SKWORJ@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Closing kardex (Jacqueline Snider)

> From: Jacqueline Snider <Snider@ACT.ORG>

(snipped for brevity)

>   having difficulty letting go of the kardex.  We have many notes attached
>   to the cards, and we have not quite completed the acquisitions/renewal
>   information that has to be added to the automated serials modules.  Do
>   any of you have advice regarding the final closing of the kardex?  We
>   will not dispose of all of those records.  We still find that when we are
>   asked a question regarding issue retention, we still go to the kardex
>   first.

***Yes.  Do *not* dispose of the kardex.  We went online in 1989, 3 serials
librarians ago, and I still go to that invaluable resource in the back
corner of my office.

Although I wasn't here when the cutoff happened, my understanding is that
we went online "from this day forward" and kept the kardex for history.

My .02 worth--

Jeanette Skwor

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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 15:11:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deborah Harrell <dharrell@westga.edu>
Subject: Re: Closing kardex (3 messages)

We closed our Kardex four years ago for periodical checkin.  However, we
still maintain newspaper checkin in the Kardex because it is so much
simpler than adding it to the computer.

How do other libraries handle newspaper checkin when they have a computer
system?

Thanks.

Debbie Harrell
Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
phone: 770-836-6498
fax: 770-836-6626