Re: [ALCTS-acqnet] Turnaround time for books

From: Link, Forrest <linkf_at_tcnj.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:10:48 -0400
To: acqnet_at_lists.ala.org
Hi, Stacey!

We don't do shelf ready (although our vendor supplies paperbacks with Kapco
covers), so I can't answer #1.  When we purchase ILL titles we treat them
as rush. We are fortunate to have an Amazon warehouse very close by and
doubly fortunate to have a cataloging department willing and eager to
accommodate rush requests.  Property stamping and tattle-taping are done
in-house by student workers.  As a result, we can get rush books to our
access services--from order to patron--usually in less than a week and
three days is not unusual.  We could trim a day off of that if books didn't
have to come through the central mail room on campus.

Cheers!

--Forrest

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:47 AM Stacey Marien <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org> wrote:

> Hello Acquisitions!
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> I’m interested in hearing what your turnaround for processing books is –
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>    1. We get shelf ready books from our vendor – we copy catalog them so
>    some go directly to circ, some diverted to cataloging for further work.
>    What is your usual turnaround to get on the shelf for titles that fall in
>    that category?
>    2. Books that come in with hold notifies attached to them.  We treat
>    them as rush – what is your usual turnaround for those to get to the
>    circulation desk?
>    3. Books bought for ILL – we purchase books for ILL, they have a hold
>    notify – again what is your usual turnaround to get the book to the circ
>    desk?
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> Stacey
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> Stacey Marien
> Acquisitions Librarian
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> American University
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> 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW
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> Library Technical Services
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> Spring Valley – Room 148
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> Washington, DC 20016
> smarien_at_american.edu
> 202-885-3842
> orcid.org/0000-0003-2608-4559
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[image: The College of New Jersey] <http://tcnj.pages.tcnj.edu/> 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


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