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Unit: Monographs Receiving Unit of LTS
Date last reviewedupdated: 08/1107/20222024
Date of next review: August 2023
Categories of Items Rushed through LTS
Treatment of Rush Items at Point of Inputting or Receiving
Pre-catalog Processing of Rush and Pink Flyer Items (LTS Procedure #19)rocessing of Pink Flyer Items Returned to LTS Olin from Access Services
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Categories of Items Rushed through LTS
- Reference, New and Noteworthy or Course Reserve
- Rare, History of Science or Human Sexuality
- Rush/Requested for Law but Received in LTSLTS–SEND TO LAW
- Rush/Requested for Mann but Received in LTS
- Rush/Requested by a Patron
Note: Items are fastcattable if:
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Items may be "fastcatted" by either Acquisitions staff or Cataloging staff, depending on the format.
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- Items are cataloged by LTS Olin staff.
- Rush is circled in red on the destination flyer.
- New and Noteworthy; Patron information or the Reserve information is annotated on the flyer.
- If the item is fastcattable by Acquisitions staff, it is cataloged and sent directly to the rush shelf in the Physical Processing area.
- If the item is not fastcattable by Acquisitions staff, it will be sent to Cataloging staff for rush cataloging.
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Note: Handling of items for Asia Rare is addressed in LTS Procedure #74#50, Rare and Special Items Processing.
- Items are not processed by LTS Olin Acquisitions staff.
- Items are received and sent directly to the collection for which they were ordered. They are not marked in any way nor sent to Physical Processing.
- Requestor information is noted on the flyer and Rush is circled in red.
- Items should be placed on the desk of the Receiving Supervisor to let staff in RMC know to pick-up.
3. Rush/requested items for Law but received in LTS
- Items destined for Law are not cataloged in Olin.
- Rush/requestor information is noted on the flyer and "Rush" circled in red.
- Processed through normal approval, standing order or gifts workflows and placed on the outgoing mail shelf to go to the Law Library uncataloged.
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- If books are fastcattable, they are cataloged in Olin.
- Requestor information is noted on the flyer and "Rush" circled in red.
- Items are processed through normal firm order, approval, standing order or gifts workflows.
- If the item is not fastcattable by Acquisitions staff, it will be sent to Cataloging staff for rush cataloging.
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Items will be retrieved from catalogers' review shelves by Cataloging staff. See Patron Requests for Items in Storage. Cataloging staff will rush process the item if appropriate staff are available. Otherwise, it will be sent to Physical Processing and be rushed to patron uncataloged as a pink flyer item. Anchor
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Processing of Pink Flyer Items Returned to LTS Olin from Access Services
These are placed on the "Pink flyer" shelf by Access Services staff and are retrieved by a member of the Inputting Unit. When returned to LTS Olin, the books will be searched in FOLIO and OCLC and processed for cataloging according to the guidelines below.
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- If a 3-check LC or member record with an LC-type call number is found, overlay the FOLIO record with the better record. If the item is fastcattable, process it and place the item on the appropriate truck for physical processing. If the item is not fastcattable, annotated the flyer and place the book on the appropriate truck truck in bookmarking cataloging for copy/original cataloging.
- If no better record is found, place an appropriately annotated location flyer in the item, along with the pink flyer and place the book on the appropriate truck in bookmarking cataloging for copy/original cataloging. The pink flyer is not discarded until the book has been cataloged.
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