Re: routing handling

[Elizabeth Moore <emoore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We don't barcode individual journals in our library unless they are 
routed (we barcode journal volumes after they are bound).
 If a journal is only routed to one professor, then we barcode the 
journal and check it out to that professor.  If a journal is routed to 
more than one professor, we barcode the journal and check it out to a 
 made-up patron, "Routed journals."   If it's time to bind and a journal 
has not been returned, our Bindery Assistant looks it up and if it is 
checked out to a professor, sends that professor a memo, asking that the 
journal be returned for binding.  If a journal is checked out to "Routed 
journals," then she looks at the routing list for that title and sends 
individual memos to all on the routing list, telling them that we need 
the journal and asking them to return it if they have it.

We started doing this because it took so long to get the journal back 
and forth between each professor on the routing list.  Also, some 
professors just passed it on to the next one without returning it to us 
in between, so it just seemed easier to let it go.  In the long run, the 
people who are going to keep the issues overdue do it no matter how we 
check it out.  We try to put the ones who hold on to things longest last 
on the routing list.

Elizabeth Moore


Zhou, Don wrote:

>We need some help from the community and any input will be appreciated.
>
>How is your library handling routing?  In our library, we rout journals to faculty and staff members, but we can not track them where they are. This creates problem for us in binding because the routing issues may be not returned in time or we do not know where they are in routing. Do you have any solutions or what is your solution?  We are thinking about checking out those routing journals to the faculty members we are routing to. Is this a good idea?
>
>
>Don Zhou
>William Mitchell College of Law
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Elizabeth L. Moore
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Loyola Law Library
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New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: 504.861.5637
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