Hi Amy, back in the day when our library subscribed to much more print and more companies were open in late December, we used to close during Christmas break and campus mail held our materials, we used an all hands on deck to deal with the influx. Obviously that won't be possible in the beginning of the return to work.
I suggest you have lots of book trucks and tubs (perhaps your campus mail will leave you some when they deliver) so you can do a rough sort. Maybe you have one or two people looking at the packages and doing the initial sort based on what staff deal with what stuff.(in our case periodicals were divided alphabetically among 3 staff so we sorted based on those letters). Perhaps you put all your Casalini packages together, or GOBI, or OASIS or Harrassowitz. One person might then open all the Harrassowitz boxes and do the next level of sorting. You will also have to build in time to perform whatever sort of cleaning/disinfecting steps are recommended. Accept that this might not all be accomplished in one day. However if you can think of it as one pile, then ten piles, then 25 piles, etc. I think you could find a workable way to keep folks separated as long as the minimum number of people deal with the one pile.
Maybe others will have additional ideas to share. But places to sort material and move it somewhere else for more sorting will serve you well.
Good luck to all of us!
Susan
Susan Davis
Acquisitions Librarian for Continuing Resources and Licensing Specialist
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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Buffalo, NY 14260-2210
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] Plans for return
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had started to develop plans for the day at least some of us might return to working on-site. How do you plan to address the backlogs that have formed?
We anticipate a large number of our serial issues to be waiting for us - we asked a lot of our major vendors to hold our shipments, but so many serials come directly from the publisher, that we are anticipating that those will still be waiting for us, as well as anything that shipped prior to the decision to leave campus, and arrived after our departure.
Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas they would be willing to share about how they plan to address large quantities of material, particularly if some staff remain off-site to continue some level of social distancing?
Thanks!
Amy
Amy Dittman
Head of Electronic Resources and Serials Acquisitions
Harvard Library ITS
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