Periodicals Improvement Group
Minutes from January 22, 2004 Meeting
Preservation Office, 10:30 a.m.

 

Present
Kendra Carter, Jason Fleming, David Hickey, Daniel Holt, Doug Kiker, Robert Parker, and Judy Rummel,
Announcements
  1. Jo is now the liaison between patrons and the serials department. (Dee will be phasing out of this role.)
  2. Charge bound volumes to transient ID for outgoing periodicals(?)

Area Studies Titles

  1. Current African titles from LWCON are housed in Smathers East. In the Note field we have put a new code NOTES.
  2. Start looking for ones that have have this but shouldn't, and ones that don't but should.
  3. afr,per loose issues that won't be picked up will be bound once a year.
  4. If these titles are getting to the hallway w/o a call # then there is a problem.
    1. For new asian titles start using main,per.
Periodical Management
  • Collecting and Binding is easier now
Kluwer Titles
?'s to this group
  • Q: How should we direct students to information in the blue boxes?
    1. Make a NEW CODE for these items.
  • Q: Kluwer and Wiley titles are still coming in. What should we do with them?
    1. Do not send them downstairs.
  • Q: What if Kluwer drops a title electronically? How do we find out in order to know that we should pick it up in print instead?
  • Q: How will the Dim Archive look in ALEPH?
Next Meeting
When: April 15th, 2004 from 10:00-11:30am
Where: The Library East Conference Room.
PIG