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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:26:25 -0500
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From:         Loretta Merlo <Loretta_Merlo@QMCUMC.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU>
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What is the size of your reserve collection?
370 monographs, aproximately 200 reprints, and 200 or so computer software
manuals.
your entire library collection?
Our entire collection consists of the following, as of Oct. 1991:
Books:		 52,000
Journal volumes: 93,000
Journal titles: 2,402

Are your reserve materials housed in a separate collection?
Yes. Reserve is kept behind the Circulation Desk.
loan period?
Our official Loan period is 3 hrs, in Library use. We enforce that only when
items are in high demand, and patrons are waiting. Otherwise, we allow items
to leave the Library on a limited basis, usually no more than for 1 hour.
Reserve also circulates outside the Library overnight 3 hrs before closing
time, due within the first 3 hours of opening the following day.

Do you have short-term-loan books integrated into the stacks?
No. We used to, but I did away with them I think it is too confusing for
patrons and staff. Either it belongs in the Reserve or Reference Collection or
it's regular collection.

Do you have a separate budget for buying reserve materials?
 No. Reserve purchases are considered priority, though.
Do you relocate books from your main collection to the reserve
location?
When faculty requests a item be put on reserve, and we already own it, yes.
Or both?
 Items are returned to regular collection when no longer needed for reserve.

Does your reserve collection include instructors' personal
copies? library books? both?
We use personal copies only when necessary. We prefer to have and loan our own
material whenever possible.

Do you accept required texts for courses for inclusion in the
reserve collection?
I think it's a good idea. Otherwise, a student will charge out the item for
personal use during the semester, leaving us with no avaialable copy anyway.
Other students will start requesting holds on the item, so they can use it for
the semester, etc. I think required texts should be on reserve. Then, most
patrons have access to the item.

Are there restrictions to the type of material you accept for
reserve?
Not really. Haven't gotten anything totally outrageous yet.

How many titles/copies of personal copies and of library
books do you accept from each instructor per course?
 We usually can't afford more than one copy of most items these days.

Are usage statistics for reserve materials available to you?
Yes. LIS provides excellent usage stats.

Do you use usage statistics to limit the number of copies placed
into the reserve collection?
We use usage statistics to gauge which items we absolutely should have 2
copies of.

Are subject librarians involved in the selection of titles
purchased for reserve?  How?
As we are a Medical Library, we don't have subject librarians. The Collection
Development Librarian advises us on which item is new and definative in a
particular area.

Are faculty members involved in the selection of titles purchased
for reserve?  How?
Faculty members request that items be put on reserve for their classes. Imput
from all staff members is taken into consideration when a "hole" is found in
our core reserve collection which can be filled by a particular item or items.


How often and how do you weed the reserve collection?
 Not often enough. I'm still waiting for the new reserve module in LIS to
facilitate this process--

L. Merlo, Manager Circulation Services, Cornell Medical Library.
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