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Unit: Physical Processing

Date last updated:04 Aug 2023 August 2025 

Date of next review: August 20242026

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Incoming Materials From LTS
      Hardcover
      Softcover
      Serials
      Music
      Non-book Formats
      Rush books
      Storage
Incoming Materials From Other Departments
      Access Services
      Preservation & Conservation
      Unit Libraries
Distribution of Materials
      O/K/U Stacks
      Departmental Libraries
      Pink Flyer
      Storage
Special Formats Processing
      DVD & CD Formats
      Sound Cassettes
      Video Cassettes
General Guidelines  
      Plating
      Stamping (Mark of Ownership)
      Creating a Pocket
      Errata
      Bookplates

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DVDs and CDs should be processed according to each library's requirements. The call number should be written on the label side of one sided (one side silver and one side with label) CDs and DVDs with a permanent marker. For two sided discs, do not write on the disc itself; the call number should be written on the inner circular area. A computer generated label is applied to the spine of the case, preferably, if not, to the upper left side of the front of the case.
See LTS Procedure #24 #19 CD Processing. 

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If the cassette is accompanying material to a book, apply a machine generated call number label to the cassette, the book and/or the case.
See LTS Prcodedure #17 Sound #13 Audio Recordings Processing. 

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Produce two machine generated call number labels for each tape. Apply one to the case and one to the tape, in the left window, if possible.
See LTS Procedure #33 #25 Videorecording Processing.

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White / No CoverCover  MOST CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ARE ELECTRONIC NOW.

Post Cataloging staff  will add a paper cover to hearings that are too thick to pamphlet bind. University ownership stamps are applied when they come to the physical processing area. Items that are thin enough to be pamphlet bound are treated like any other pamphlets in physical processing.

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