The University of MD is in the process of reviewing its
procedures for ordering course reserves materials.
Presently all these titles are ordered as "Rush" in order
to get the material into the library as soon as possible.
The problem of course ocurrs when professors arrive back on
campus the last weeks of August and decide that they want
material ready on reserve for the beginning of fall
semester.
Our questions are:
Are orders for reserves materials handled any differently
from other orders?
How do you handle the inevitable crunch of orders from
faculty at the beginning of the semester? How do you
encourage your faculty to get their orders in early enough
to ensure material being available when they need it?
Many thanks
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Janet Siar
Acquisitions
McKeldin Library
University of MD
College Park, MD 20742
Phone 301-405-9308
Fax 301-314-1200
js116_at_umail.umd.edu
Received on Thu Aug 17 2000 - 14:08:03 EDT