Implementing the unthinkable: The demise of periodical check-in at the University of Nevada

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-71

  Anderson, Rick ^a   Zink, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding; Check in; Claiming; Document delivery; Frequency; Journals; Mergers; Serials; Splits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037338801     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-9055(02)00309-3     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Zink, S. D. (1982). Government publications as serials. In: N. J. Melin (Ed.), The serials collection: organization and administration (p. 115). Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press.
2. Mooney, M. T. (1994). Depository processing made easy: a one keystroke automated check-in system for U.S. government documents. Documents to the People, 22, 211-2.
3. Bolner, M. S. (1995). Online processing of government documents: an overview. Documents to the People, 23, 131-4.
4. Lesher, M. C. (1993). Check-in with the SISAC symbol (bar code): implementation and uses for libraries, publishers and automation vendors. Serials Librarian, 23, 249-51.
5. Katzman, M. (1993). The check-in war. Wilson Library Bulletin, 67, 57.
6. Sozansky, B. W. (1991). Mission control, do you read us? decentralizing serials check-in in an automated environment. Serials Librarian, 19, 227-9.
7. Shelton, J. M. (1991). The continuations saga: converting non-periodical serials. Serials Librarian, 21, 153-6.
8. Horan, M. (2000). Building a serials check-in datafile using Microsoft Access and paper check-in principles. Serials Review, 26, 22-42.
9. McNellis, C. H. (1996). A serial pattern scheme for a value-based predictive check-in system. Serials Review, 22, 1-11.
10. McNellis, p. 11.
11. Peritore, L. (1989). Public access to serials check-in information and its impact on reference services. Reference Librarian, 27/28, 17-37.
12. Peritore, p. 33.
13. According to statistics kept during fiscal years 1999 and 2000, items checked in during a typical quarter totaled approximately 12,500, while claims during a typical quarter totaled approximately 2,200. Many of the latter are second and third claims for the same item. Thus, an estimate that 85% of serial issues arrive on time is conservative indeed.
14. High-use/high-cost titles are rare in the Nevada libraries' collections, as they tend to be in most institutions'. While there are many high-cost/low-use titles and many low cost/high-use titles, few are high in both cost and use.