1) We stopped having students do check-in after they were making too many mistakes.  Students who grew up in the digital age have a very hard time with print journals.  They don’t understand the basics such as numbering and why they need to report missing or skipped issues.

2) We were not checking in dailies when I arrived here >10 years ago, and have not done so since.   Today we get so few newspapers that we know right away if the important ones, such as the New York Times, aren’t received in a timely fashion. 

--Jennifer

Jennifer L. van Sickle

Serials Librarian & Sciences Coordinator

Trinity College Library

300 Summit St.

Hartford, CT USA 06106

860-297-2250 phone

860-297-2251 fax

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.

3) 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.

4) 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