Liane,

1) We used to have students check in serials but that job is now mine. Even when we had student workers doing that they did not extrapolate boxes or change frequencies. They simply reported problems to me and I made the changes. We generally only have students for two or three years and the training involved didn’t seem worth it especially since they could have done some real damage to the records at that level of authority.

2) We stopped checking in dailies as well. The only problem I’ve found is that you never know when a subscription falters for any reason. Usually a shelving student reports the problem if they notice a daily hasn’t arrived for a couple of months and we then make contact with the vendor. All of our dailies are discarded after a time and we apparently aren’t concerned with gaps in the collection, so if you have a reliable method of knowing that a subscription has stopped then you could free up some time in not checking them in as long as you’re not worried about missing an issue here and there.

Roger Davis

Serials Librarian

Assistant Professor

Kent State University - Stark Campus

6000 Frank Ave. NW

Canton, Ohio

http://local2.stark.kent.edu/Library/Bindings/

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