At my institution, we have two separate locations for journals: one for current, unbound issues; and one for bound. When I started here, my staff and students were doing reshelving for both areas and keeping tick marks on paper for every
time they reshelved an issue/bound volume. I put a stop to that.
For the past five years or so, reshelving of bound journals has been handled like every other type of material in the library that is left out. Our circulation people / students take books, reference materials, and bound journals volumes
back to circulation and discharge each piece every day before then reshelving them, which creates a browse count in our ILS (Voyager). This is how we now track any usage for bound journals, via Voyager reports.
Unbound issues are still reshelved by people in my area but we decided not to do any manual statistics gathering on them as the collection continues to shrink (about 350 titles now) and we needed to focus on higher priority tasks. By the
way, we do not do a “normal” checkin either, just a brief lookup to see that we have a subscription to the journal when each issue is received.
Steve
Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor and Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives
Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)
+1 (630) 752-5852
Past President,
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Date: Monday, July 16, 2018 at 1:03 PM
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Subject: [SERIALST] Best option for tracking reshelving stats for non-circulating print periodicals
Good morning, collective wisdom.
For those who maintain a print serials collection (both current and bound back issues) with titles that do not circulate, how do you track usage? Do you keep re-shelving stats? If so, do you equate the reshelving
of one title to one "use", or do you use the standard multiply by three method, by which you count three "uses" each time you reshelve a single title (assuming that patrons have done their own reshelving of that title at some point)?
Or are you using a different method entirely?
We have not been tracking reshelving stats at all and are exploring ways to gauge usage of our non-circulating print serials moving forward.
Thank you in advance for sharing your advice and experiences.
Cheers,
Erin
Erin Gallagher
Director of Collection Services
Reed College Library
(503) 777-7552
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