Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:07:05 +0000
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All: At my institution, we order through GOBI and they do both the cataloging and processing. The standard procedure for years has been for the materials to come to the central cataloging department where a series of checks are done on the items and records. If they pass all the checks, they are sent to the campus. We have never considered these books as 'shelf-ready' because cataloging handles them before they are sent to the campus to be shelved. Due to budget cuts and severe staff shortages we are now working toward what we have been calling shelf-ready. Acquisitions will order them and GOBI will ship directly to the campus everything that meets are technical specs requirements. Only those that don't meet the criteria at the GOBI end will be sent to cataloging to be handled. The recent question about turn-around time got me thinking about what other institutions mean when they say 'shelf-ready.' I would love to hear from others who are taking the same position we are, 'shelf-ready' means cataloging is not going to handle the items. They will go directly to the campus libraries to be received and shelved, especially how you determined that the cataloging was 'good-enough'. Jacque Dessino, MA, MLS Electronic Services Librarian Libraries Tidewater Community College ------------------ (e): jdessino_at_tcc.edu<mailto:jdessino_at_tcc.edu> Portsmouth: Virginia Beach: Library A240D Joint Use Library, L205L 120 Campus Drive 1700 College Crescent Portsmouth, VA 23701 Virginia Beach, VA 2345 757-822-2646 757-822-7154 [Tidewater Community College]
