[Publib] Circulating old magazines

[Judith Turner]

Last night I replied to Robert offlist since as a special library we had a lot of experience with circulating magazines and other serials. When I saw Matt's comments this evening, though, I thought I'd chime in on his point about highly selective bagging:  
1) National Geographics with separate maps - assuming you leave the map with the issue  (we removed the folded maps that were inserted from time to time and cataloged them in our map collection; otherwise the map might not come back when the issue was returned and we would not realize it was missing until it was too late to mount a search). 
2) Any other magazines that include supplementary material not bound or stapled into the magazine.

It might not be the worst idea for the staff member checking in new serial issues to bag items with supplementary material before they go on the magazine shelves.  Leaving the decision to the person at the circulation desk with a line of impatient patrons waiting their turn might not be the optimal solution.  Also prebagging the items - much like we place high-demand items into binders for display purposes - helps keep things together whether they are being used in the library or taken home .

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI

"Shaw, Matthew M" <shawmm at forsyth.cc> wrote:    
 You might want to consider bagging just a select list of titles that are particularly expensive and/or that may get significant use over several years. Examples might include craft and hobby magazines with project directions.


 
       
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