Locations Browsing

Browsing Decisions

(9/10/04)

1. Browsing materials are ordered from the budgeted Acquisitions monies, chosen from the Approval books or selected from the backlog of materials that arrives in the Catalog Dept. These materials are selected to represent the reading interests of our patrons, trying to cover as many subject areas as possible. It is wise to choose materials that are more entertaining or informative without being technical in nature.


2. Please note that materials chosen for Browsing will remain on those shelves for approximately six months before removal to the regular stack locations.


3. Action Dates have been entered for each title upon cataloging of the material, so that a cuing date will occur when that title is ready to be reviewed (six months from the date of cataloging). On-Demand reports can be printed at any time for this review process.


4. Titles should be reprocessed for the stacks after six months on the shelves, no matter how many “check-outs” have been recorded.


5. This periodic evaluation should help to keep the collection fresh and interesting. We find that patrons tend to make Browsing their first stop when entering the library because they want to get a book they have seen before or see what’s new on the shelves. Keeps everyone excited.


6. Exceptions can be made for returning some materials to the Browsing Collection because of immediacy of the subject (e.g. 9/11 or terrorist materials). Please revise the Action Date when returning special books to the Browsing shelves. 


7. For titles being transferred to the regular collections, retrieve the books from Browsing and follow the directions for reprocessing (listed separately).
8. Materials absent from the Browsing shelves on the cuing date need to be marked for Cat      
Review on the Item Record, have the Action Date revised to the Return Due Date and a note placed to send to “yourself” for transfer, at the bottom of the Item Record. 

***Music has requested that none of their titles appear in the Browsing Collection, so there will be no “M” classification books in that collection. 

Browsing Process

9/10/04 

1. Call up book by the barcode.
2. Place jacket on book, if there is one. While on the item record, add a second barcode which you will place on the jacket (if no jacket-no second barcode). 
3. Key in an Action Date (ex: mo/dy/year) which is six months ahead of the cataloging date.
   (ex: creation date = 01/15/2004 means action date = 07/15/2004 
4. Go to the Holdings Screen and change the sublocation to br (ex: cl,br). 
5. Reformat the call number to add the appropriate |c’s. 
6. With book jacket on the book , place it on the marking truck. 
7. It is not necessary to change the 049 on the Bibliographic screen. 
8. Make sure the general markings are on the book (magnetic patch, possession stamp on the back of the t.p., and date due slip).

Cataloging Department