1. At Kent State University, we do train our serials student assistants to add and delete boxes for the check-in cards and to edit the check-in records for frequency. As their supervisor, I just ask them to give me a list of the titles with frequency changes so that I can update our bibliographic records, but they handle the changes for the check-in records. FYI, we have 3 graduate student assistants who handle our print serials check-in (roughly 4000 titles). For the most part our students perform these tasks without problem and if they’re unsure they will usually ask for help. We also use III.

 

  1. We continue to check-in our dailies, but we have less than a dozen of these titles. We still check them in primarily because we receive multiple copies of several of the titles that need to be sorted for other departments in the library. And since we have so few, it wouldn’t save us much time to not check them in.

 

Anita

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Anita L. Martin

University Libraries

Serials & Electronic Resources

Kent State University

Kent, OH 44242

Phone: 330-672-1689

FAX: 330-672-3024

Email: almarti1@kent.edu

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Luckman, Liane
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:31 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Students Editing Checkin Cards & Dailies Checkin

 

Hello all,


Two questions for the group. We’d appreciate any experience and insight you can share.

 

1)      We’re looking at having students add new boxes on the checkin card for expected issues and also edit checkin cards when publications change frequency, rather than forward these tasks to a supervisor. We're interested to know if any other institutions have trained their student assistants to do this work, and if so, how it did or has been working out. We use III, but these tasks are similar across most ILSes. I’ve also posted this question on the III users listserv.

2)      We’re looking at stopping checkin of dailies. The last informal survey done on SERIALST of daily checkin that I could find was in 2007. We’re interested to know if, since then, anyone has experienced problems with NOT checking in dailies.

 

Thanks,

Liane

 

Liane Luckman

Serials Acquisitions Librarian

Texas State University - San Marcos/Alkek Library
601 University Drive | San Marcos, TX 78666

512.245.2643 | lluckman@txstate.edu