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I put unused barcodes on plastic envelopes and then scan them in as a
temporary item, put in the magazine title date and off they go with
the magazine in the envelope, then we just scan it in when they
return and re-use the envelope. It works for us.
I make multiple barcodes on old check- out cards and have students
sign them.I put the magazine in Destiny, just like a book title- You
can scan the barcode and get credit for circulation. Each magazine
has at least 3 check out cards with that magazine's barcode on the
top card. I keep them in a small filing case. Hope this helps.
We take a series of unused barcodes and put them on manilla
envelopes. We then laminate them. As the students come to us with a
magazine to check out, we grab an envelope and check it out as a
temporary item. We do this by typing a T before the barcode number.
We add the title and date of the magazine to the temporary record.
We put the magazine in the envelope and ask the students to return
them in the same envelope. Then, when the item comes back, the
record is deleted and the envelope is ready to use again for the next
magazine. It takes just a couple of extra seconds to check out, but
saves us from cataloging every magazine.
We barcode the magazine cover then check it out as a temporary typing
in the title and date of magazine. We keep the covers behind the
desk and then insert what ever magazine they want into the cover at
checkout. It has worked very well this way.
We check all single issue magazines out on temporary barcodes. We write
the barcode number (We keep the first 1000 barcodes for temporaries.) on
the inside of the last page with the date due. We only put permanent
barcodes on magazines that we bind. We keep fewer and fewer bound
magazines since we now depend much more on digital articles. We keep
used and unused temporary barcodes on cardstock near the check-out.
Barcodes are never circulated.
We have not yet moved up to Destiny but have Follett.
I use gallon sized freezer bags, each with a barcode. I circulate
them as temporary items as they are checked out.
I would be interested in the suggestions you get. Currently, we
check in magazines by hand and they never even enter the system.
This is what I would like to do, but I'm not sure if it would work
with Destiny:
Barcode only the old issues. When a new one comes in, check it in
and barcode the issue it is replacing. This way, I know that if one
does not have a barcode it is the most recent issue and does not
circulate. I played with it a little bit, but I can't seem to find a
place that you can check in magazines in Destiny, and you can't
create an item without a barcode.
This is what I do. I have a bunch of manila envelopes with barcodes
taped to them. When a child checks out a magazine, I "zap" the bar
code on one of the envelopes and enter a temporary record for the
title of the magazine and the month and year. I make the student read
me the title, month, and year so they can learn where that info is
and evaluate whether they really want that "old" magazine. The
magazine is checked out to the student in the envelope. When the
student returns the magazine (hopefully in the envelope) it is
returned on Destiny. If the child loses the envelope, then I can just
check in the magazine by its title, month and year. Hope this helps,
First, I created a material type called "serial". Then, I added a
record for each magazine title. When I receive a new issue, I add a
copy to the title. I put a barcode on the back cover.
We enter a serial record for each title that is generic. IF you have
Alliance+, the records are there. They are open ended. Each copy is
entered in Add Copy with the Issue # and Date place in the Descriptor
fields.
There are a few exceptions: Biography for Beginners and Biography
Today, though they are serials, are cataloged separately so that the
biographees can be searched. Again, the records are in Alliance+.
I'm in elementary, and my magazines circulate heavily. I catalog and
bar code all of them, and enter them into the system under 1 MARC
record (you can download the record by using the ISSN),I use MAGAZINE
as a generic call number, and give volume and enumeration on each
copy--i.e. August, 2007.
Kim Miller,Information Specialist
CCSD #46
Grayslake Middle School
440 N. Baron Blvd
Grayslake, Illinois 60030
847.543.5820
miller.kim@d46.k12.il.us
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