All,
Like most everyone we look through donations, make a quick judgement, and
sort into piles of keep/don't keep. Don't Keepers go to our in-house Sale
Shelves because we want to give our local students and faculty first dibs
on gift books. Eventually unwanted titles are sent to Better Books.
The keepers we enter the ISBNs into the Freeware JTacq
<http://www.jtdata.com/jtacq.html>.
Next, with the click of a button, we run a "get data" search which supplies
bibliographic data and cost/purchasing data to all the records.
Then, with the click of another button, we run a "holdings" search. JTacq
searches the holdings in our local catalog and tells us what we already
have or don't have. Because it also includes a title search during this
process, it also identifies when we have a different edition.
As you can imagine, this process cuts down enormously on the time and
energy it take to check through a gift collection.
One final step we are required to do by our administration ... whenever we
add a gift book to our collection, a 541 field is added to the bib record
indicating who the gift was from, the year it was added, and an approximate
value based on the data retrieved during the "get data" pull. This is a
time consuming task, but, it makes it possible to run an SQL report that
documents the value of the gift titles we have added during the year. This
process of adding the 541 fields can be automated in JTacq when the title
added is new to the collection, but for those titles that already have a
bib record in the catalog, we add the data manually using cut and paste.
Happy Collecting everyone!
Don
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Forrest Link <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org> wrote:
> Stacey,
>
>
> Yeah, we get 'em too. If the books are not total trash, I run them past
> the appropriate subject selector. Occasionally we'll add them. Case in
> point is a recent shipment of lovely books on various aspects of Japanese
> culture. Kept those. But most of the time they go to a rack we have in our
> cafe for giveaways. My personal favorite remains the beautiful,
> unsolicited multi-volume set of books on the genius of the multi-talented
> L. Ron Hubbard. To the rack!
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> --Forrest
>
>
> Forrest E. Link
> Acquisitions Librarian
> World Languages & Cultures Librarian
> R. Barbara Gitenstein Library
> PO Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718
> 609-771-2412
> linkf_at_tcnj.edu
>
> On June 29, 2018 at 3 :56 PM Stacey Marien <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org> wrote:
>
> All
>
> I have just cleaned out my bookcase and now have a cart full of books that
> were sent to the library/Acq department unsolicited. What do you all do
> with books like this? Somehow I feel guilty putting them into the recycle
> bin
>
> Stacey
>
> Stacey Marien
> Acquisitions Librarian
>
> American University
>
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=4400+Massachusetts+Ave,+NW&entry=gmail&source=g>
>
> Library Technical Services
>
> Spring Valley – Room 148
>
> Washington, DC 20016
> smarien_at_american.edu
> 202-885-3842
> orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559
>
>
>
>
>
>
--
Don Butterworth
Collection Management Director /
Faculty Associate
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterworth_at_asburyseminary.edu
(859) 858-2227
Received on Mon Jul 02 2018 - 09:59:29 EDT