[Publib] circulating current issues of magazines

[Diedre Conkling]

It does make life easier to just circulate all of the periodicals and not try to make differences between new and older issues.  It seems to work well in the small libraries I am associated with that do this. (Not all of them do.)  We decided not to purchase plastic magazine holders for the newest periodicals.  If we had we might have used these plastic holders as a trigger to the Circulation staff that this was a new item since we decided to put all of the periodicals in the ILS as circulating.  But, we are cheap and it seems to have worked out alright.

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Diedre Conkling
     
  Lincoln County Library District
  P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR  97365
  Phone & Fax:  541-265-3066
  http://lcld.library-blogs.net/
  Work:  diedre at beachbooks.org
  Home:  diedrec at charter.net
   

---- Nancy Bartlett <nbartlett at mhl.org> wrote: 

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Thanks to John Richmond's excellent thoughts on circulating current issues 
of magazines...is any other library doing this? What was the patron 
response? We now circulate quarterlies and bimonthlies but I'd like to make 
life easier and circulate all of them, including the weekly news magazines. 
Would love to hear all the pros and cons...Thanks!

Nancy N. Bartlett
Reference Department
Memorial Hall Library
3 Elm Square
Andover, MA 01810
978-623-8401, ext. 51
Fax: 978-623-8407 (Reference)
nbartlett at mhl.org
www.mhl.org