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Scope: This document outlines the process that Library Technical Services (LTS) serials receiving staff follow when receiving an issue or a volume of a serial title. This procedure does not apply to RMC serials.

Contact: Paul Heckathorn Joanna Cerro

Unit: Serials Management

Date last reviewed: 2024.08.0809 Sep 2025 

Date of next review: 2025 Sept. 092026

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A. Newspapers

B. Periodicals (published at least twice a year)

C. Serials (published annually or less frequently) and Monographic Series cataloged as serials

D. Special Formats

E. Cheat Sheet (Excel spreadsheet with check-in and physical processing information)

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A. Newspapers

Mark nsp on the upper left corner of the front page. Place on the Newspapers-Maps/Microforms LTS distribution shelf for Acquisitions Services.

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Titles for JGSM/Hotel: Latest issues held in:
-Write ILR and call# on sticker,insert note/flyer to indicate latest issues held in Management
Library, Sage Hall, or Nestle Library.-JGSM current periodicals should go directly to Sage Hall rather than to ILR first (as of Oct. 2021).

-Hotel current periodicals should go directly ILR for redistribution.

Titles for the Rare & Manuscript Collections:
-Check-in. Do not mark. Send directly to the Rare & Manuscript Collections in a campus envelope

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Spiral bound titles for all locations:
-Follow the same procedure as for the hard cover titles.

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D. Special Formats:

CD-ROM processing (for CD's included with book when the book is being barcoded):

1. With permanent marker, write call# and enum/chron on CD. Place back inside book.
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2. On bookmarking slip, write "CD in book." Barcode/create item record for book itself, but not for CD. Place on serials bookmarking cart.
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E. Cheat Sheet (Excel spreadsheet with check-in and physical processing information)

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