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From: LIBADM6@UCONNVM.BITNET (Nancy Orth)
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Subject: Re: Semester check-out for seniors & grads
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:25:01 GMT
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At the main library at UCONN Storrs graduate students may apply for "Extended
Loan"- an annual fixed due date - a privilege which faculty and staff have
automatically (We also extend this privilege to undergraduates in the Honors
Program upon written recommendation of the Honors Program adviser-for one seme
ster at a time.).  Our system alerts us when a graduate student is no longer
eligible for library privileges, and we have a somewhat labor intensive
procedure for going after the books; however, we do feel that many graduate
students have as much, if not more, need for Extended Loan as faculty and staff
.  In addition to those reading and writing for higher degrees, we have many
TA's at UCONN in the teaching programs.  Most graduate students
do take advantage of Extended Loan; all things considered, problems are not
great in this area. All Extended Loan materials must be returned once a year by
the last day of final exams spring semester; they may be renewed; and we are
strict about recall policy.  When we bring up a new system next year we will
continue this policy; there was much discussion from the circulation
 staff level right up to the administrative level.  The bottom line was: this
is what works best for our graduate student population. The period between mid-
April when Extended Loan courtesy notices go out through the Extended Loan due
date in mid-May is very labor intensive for us but we have been doing this for
6 years now and have procedures and staff in place to handle it.

Nancy M. Orth                     BITNET: LIBADM6@UCONNVM
Head, Circulation/Reserve         FAX:    (203) 486-3593
Homer Babbidge Library            VOICE:  (203) 486-3990
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-0005
From: MJADLOS@STLAWU.BITNET (Melissa Jadlos)
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Subject: public domain
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:55:08 GMT
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This has been cross posted to ILL-L, sorry for any duplicates.

Does anyone know if campaign speeches are in the public domain?  A
professor has copied speeches from Congressional Quarterly and placed
them on reserve.

Thanks for your help,
MELISSA JADLOS
ACCESS SERVICES/REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
CANTON, NY 13617
315-379-5479
MJADLOS@STLAWU.BITNET
From: KSIMMONS%UKANVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (kendall)
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Subject: Re: circulation status
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:09:04 GMT
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Our says: "If item is not on shelf, ask at Circulation Desk."

Kendall Simmons
University of Kansas
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From: edwardsr@milton.u.washington.edu (Richard Edwards)
Subject: Overdues and fines
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:13:41 GMT

The circulation department at the Evergreen State College Library is 
considering changing its policies concerning overdues and fines. But before 
we do we wondered what other academic libraries were currently doing. 
 
I would appreciate any responses via Email to the following questions and 
will post a summary. 
 
1) How long is your check out period? 
 
2) How many overdue notices do you send out for an item and what is the time
frame for these notices? 
 
3) Do you charge overdue fines? If so, how much? 
 
4) Does charging fines cost your institution more (to access and bill) than 
you take in? 
 
5) What percentage of your circulations become overdue? What percentage are 
fined? 
 
6) Do you feel fines work toward getting the material returned? 
 
And of course anything else about fines/notices you might want to add. 
 
Thanks in advance. 
 
Rich Edwards 
Library Supervisor, Circulation 
The Evergreen State College Library 
edwardsr@u.washington.edu 
 
1) At Evergreen we check out all material til the end of the academic 
quarter.  
2) We send two overdue notices. The first two weeks after the due date and 
the second four weeks after the due date.  
3) We do not charge overdue fines. We do have a $5 one time charge for not 
returning an item which has been recalled by the recall due date. 
4) We don't take in much from our Recall fines, but it also costs us little 
in time to administer. 
5) We send out an average of 16% of first overdue notices and 4% of second 
overdue notices. Then we bill full replacement costs for 2.3%. After one year
from the original duedate there are only 0.3% still 'LOST'. 
6) The current system works well for getting materials back within the year,
but is costly in terms of notices sent out (postage and forms).
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Ideal for our summer people too, but it is my understanding that it's not
possible at the Patron Category level-only at the Service Unit Level as
defined in Table LC101TB4.  Well that's the way it is in 5.0.1 at any rate so
most likely you are not dreaming.

Nancy M. Orth                     BITNET: LIBADM6@UCONNVM
Head, Circulation/Reserve         FAX:    (203) 486-3593
Homer Babbidge Library            VOICE:  (203) 486-3990
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-0005
From: wilson@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG
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Subject: RE: Staplers, Kleenex and Hole-Punchers
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:14:02 GMT
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Just a little humor
Our students must give their ID as collateral for a computer key
Returned when they return the key
Well as a joke on me
a student asked if I would take anything as he lost his badge
So he proceeded to hand over his 5 month old baby
It was captured on video and used in the yearly roasting  from the
medical students
I felt very lucky it was a baby
F. Wilson
The George T. Harrell Library
Hershey, PA
From: SSTEVENS@OREGON.BITNET (Shirien Stevens)
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Subject: software for scheduling staff
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:45:50 GMT
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Can anyone give me names or phone numbers for vendors selling
scheduling programs?  They don't need to be overly complex--

Thanks.




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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:19:54 CST
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From:         "Jorge L. Cruz" <VB7R0036@SMUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Circulation policies for faculty and staff

To:  Alice West

I would also be interested in the results of your survey.  Would you please
post them to the list?


Jorge L. Cruz                      BITNET:  VB7R0036@SMUVM1
Head, Circulation Dept.           INTERNET: VB7R0036@VM.CIS.SMU.EDU
Science/Engineering Library
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX  75275-0375
From: JONESS@GANDLF.UINDY.EDU ((Sarah Jones))
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Subject: RE: Circulation policies for faculty and staff
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:42:50 GMT
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We, at the University of Indianapolis, offer a year-long
loan period for full-time faculty and staff (due date is
Aug. 1 of the coming year... the year is advanced on June 1)

Adjunct faculty get an end-of-semester due date.

Our administration has a firm policy of not fining faculty
or staff.  In the event of a book declared lost or damaged,
we accept replacement if offered.  (This rarely happens... I
can't recall its happening within my tenure.)

Books to faculty/staff/adjuncts are recallable after an
initial 2-week period.  We send a written notice, and hope
for the best.  If the notice doesn't work, we just keep
calling them to repeat the request that they return the
book for another borrower.

We send "inventory" letters and also renewal letters every
summer, and this has worked rather well at getting books
renewed, or at least accounted for.  Our worst problem is
adjunct faculty who end their employment and leave with
our books.

--Sarah


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  Sarah Jones                         University of Indianapolis
  Circulation Supervisor              Krannert Memorial Library
                                      1400 E. Hanna Ave.
  joness@gandlf.uindy.edu             Indianapolis, IN  46227
  fax: (317) 788-3275                 phone: (317) 788-3268
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From:         Wendy Calwhite <calwhitw@CGRB.ORST.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Nice and Not So Nice
              92 8:22 am

Quotes from a button and a poster that I have:

"I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused."

"Some days I lose everything but my sense of humor."

w
calwhittiw@cgrb.orst.edu
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:19:25 PDT
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From:         "Kay Vyhnanek, Head, Circ and ILL,
              Washington State University" <VYHNANEK@WSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: circulation status

When records are pulled up on our system for items that should be on the shelf,
the patron simply sees the bib record followed by a line that says:
LOCATION:  HOLLAND                         CALL NUMBER:  Z124.A37
           (the library which houses the material)

When the material is checked out an additional line appears that says:
CHECKED OUT.  DUE DATE-TIME   01/11/93 12:00M

Anything that is officially missing or had an official search placed for it
has the additional notation:
MISSING.  10/09/93  2:22P

The basic concept is that what the user sees first is the catalog information
without any promise of the book's location.  If the material is in use or known
to be unavailable that information is provided.

Kay Vyhnanek
Head, Circ and ILL
Washington State University
VYHNANEK@WSUVM1.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:37:51 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: circulation status

On Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:22:14 PDT Martha Whitehead said:
>In displays of loan information, what word or phrase does your system
>use to indicate that a book is not signed out at the moment?
>
>For many years we used "not on loan", but many staff hated it:
>patrons saw the word "not" and thought they couldn't have the book.

Our system  (catalyst.idbsu.edu, in case you want to telnet and look at
it...log in is the word  catalyst  )   uses "not checked out".....at
my insistence, but wiht little objection.  It is the only thing we DO
know about the book.

>Now we use "available", but many staff object that it's too optimistic:
>if it turns out the book isn't on the shelf (as is often the case),
>the patron is frustrated because we haven't fulfilled our promise.

   We don't have any complaints about the use of the negative word
in the expression....none in two years, anyway.  Whether people are
confused and don't complain, I don't know.  The alternative for books
that are out is the expression "due 12/28/92", so people seem to understand
that if they are out, there is a due date, if they aren't, it says that.

  I fully agree that other expressions like "in library" and "on shelf"
and "available" are incomplete, misleading, and untrue in all too many
instances.

dan

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* Boise State University                                                    *
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From: POWERSCJ@CNSVAX.UWEC.EDU (NAME'Cleo Powers,
              UWEC McIntyre Library (715)836-5820')
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Subject: elderhostel privileges
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:57:00 GMT
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We at UW-Eau Claire have issued library cards to Elderhostel participants.
The Outreach Office supplies us with the names and ID numbers of the
participants in advance of their arrival on campus.  We register them
on our automated system and give them checkout privileges only for the
duration of their course on campus.  It has been our experience that
few people have used their library card.  Most of the courses have
kept the participants so busy they have hardly had time to find the
library let alone use its resources.  For the few who have used the
cards we have had almost no problems and expressions of appreciation
for the use of our materials have been forthcoming.  We have
considered this issuing of cards a good PR effort and since our
elderhostel course level offerings are not extensive (1 or two sessions
a summer) it certainly has not been a burden on us.

Cleo J. Powers
Head of Public Services
William D. McIntyre Library
University of Wisconsin
Eau Claire, WI  54702-5010
INTERNET:  POWERSCJ@UWEC.edu
Phone:  715/836-5820
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From:         Jane Snyder <snyderj@MAIL.LIB.DUKE.EDU>
Subject:      Quick Canvas on "cirulating videotapes"

          At Duke University Library:
          1.  Media is in the Reserves and Media Department.  The
          circulation desk is adjacent to the Circulation Department's
          desk and Reference Department's Desk.  We were moved here in
          August in an effort to make all public service areas easily
          accessible for our patrons.
          2.  Videos are not stripped since they are in closed stacks
          and patrons must have IDs to check out any media.
          At one time 3M strips were used under the pocket inside
          the video case, but student assistants occasionaly forgot to
          remove the video before desensitizing the case so we were
          replacing about a dozen damaged videos a year.
          3.  Yes, videos are scheduled for classes; usually less
          than 18 per day.  This is still a manual process using a
          large desk calendar and a student assistant to do the
          scheduling from reservation cards.  Hopefully this will be
          replaced with an automated system before the 93/94 academic
          year.  We haven't selected any particular system -
          suggestions would be welcomed.

          Jane Snyder
          Duke University Library
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From:         "Bobby R. Hickey" <BRHICK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
Subject:      Circulating Videotapes

Library Assistant I Serials/Kersey
Phone: 588-0180
Here at the Kersey Library we have video tapes that are circulated from
a reserve shelf in the Serials office. We don't tattletape them, because
most of them can't leave the building, we have a TV and VCR set up in our
conference room so that students can view them here. The other tapes that
circulate can only circulate to Faculty and we pass them around the gate
to avoid the possibility of them being erased. That is also the reason we
don't tattletape them. I hope this helps. Bobby.
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:39:40 -0500
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From:         SHONTZ%ATHENA.DECNET@UTHSCSA1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Quick Canvas on "cirulating videotapes"

1. No, our media is not in a separate department.  In-house only material is on

reserve, the rest is in a separate stack.

2. Our videos have security tags in them.  We use Checkpoint, which is radio
frequency, so no magnets involved.  By the way, passing a videotape through a
security gate should not affect it at all, though running it through a desen-
sitizier will probably erase it.  I think I saw the 3M people trying to address
this problem at Annual.

3. We reserve tapes in advance by tracking them on a calendar, then checking the
   m out to a dummy patron a week before they are scheduled.

David Shontz
UT Health Science Center--San Antonio
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:59:00 EDT
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From:         ORTIZ@HULAW1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: flame on!

Hear, Hear! At both public service desks we try to conduct our business as
quietly as possible.  Any quieter, and we'd all have to learn sign language:)
Anyway, we usually suggestto complaining patrons that they use the desks/
tables in other levels of the library where the traffic and conversation are
smaller.

Raquel Ortiz
Evening & Weekend Circ. Supervisor
Harvard Law School Library
ortiz@hulaw1.harvard.edu
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:30:00 EDT
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From:         RP0358@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
Subject:      Announcement of a new newsletter (cross-posted)

Announcement of a new Electronic Newsletter:

This is being cross-posted to several lists; please excuse any
duplication.

Students and alumni of the State University of New York at Albany
School of Information Science and Policy (aka the Library
School), and other schools of Library and Information Science are
especially encouraged to read the following announcement.


SCOPE NOTES:
Newsletter of the School of Information Science and Policy
Student Association, SUNY Albany.
Published monthly, both in print and electronically.

Richard J. Pugh, Editor:
Internet: RP0358@ALBNYVMS

The SISP Student Association newsletter, SCOPE NOTES, is now
available via email.  The SCOPE NOTES discusses issues of
importance to the School of Information Science and Policy at
SUNY Albany, and the profession in general. Anyone who is
interested in subscribing to this newsletter should send a
message to the editor at the above email address and ask to be
added to the mailing list.  One can cancel their subscription at
any time with a message to that intent.  The newsletter is
distributed once a month, and contributions can be sent via
surface mail or email.

Thank you for your time.

Richard J. Pugh
Editor, SCOPE NOTES
School of Information Science and Policy
State University of New York at Albany
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:43:12 EDT
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From:         Carol Goodson/West GA College <CGOODSON@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Just curious???

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:34:39 EDT Mary Kay Ball said:
>Do any of you think that we get more "complaints" than "compliments"??? I think
****we definitely get more compliments, and I think there are 2 reasons for it:
1) we have a large professional staff, adequate to meet the needs of our
clientele...so people tend not to be terribly overburdened, leading to short
tempers, etc.
2) our Director is extremely service-oriented...his inspiration and leadership
set the tone, making it impossible for anyone not similarly inclined to survive
here very long...he works regularly at the Reference Desk, takes his turn on
weekend duty, etc.--setting a great example for everyone....I'm not saying the
place is perfect, but it's damned close!  His name is Charles Beard, by the
way...you may have heard of him...he's very active in ALA....

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| Carol Goodson, Coordinator/Off-Campus Library Services         |
| Ingram Library, West Georgia College                           |
| Carrollton  GA  30118                                          |
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From:         SHONTZ%ATHENA.DECNET@UTHSCSA1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: circulation status

Our system says "shelves".  I would agree that's too optimistic as well, since
the book could be on a table or something.  Perhaps the word "in"?

David Shontz
UT Health Science Center--San Antonio
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