Periodical Management Programs

[sbrisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET>]

We are still using the card method to check-in our periodicals when they
arrive each month.  When students want to check them out, we are using a
quick paper slip form that they must fill out and an adhesive date-due slip
inside each journal.

There has to be a better way.  Is anyone using Follett circ with their
periodicals?  If not, how are you checking periodicals in and out each
month?

This is becoming a major paper task that I know can be easily changed (in
the past --at another library--I gave my incoming periodicals barcodes and
kept up with them like books until they were withdrawn; however, that has
not been the practice in my new library).

Any ideas or suggestions?

~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco021@charter.net

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