Scope: This document outlines the distribution of items for certain locations and formats that are ineligible for fastcatting in LTS Olin. See also LTS Procedure #4, Fastcat for general exclusions and exceptions.
Contact: Lisa Maybury
Unit: Monographs Receiving
Date last updated: 01/06/15
Date of next review: January 2016
Rare and Manuscripts Collections
Distribution of Non-Fastcat Books after Receiving/Inputting (LTS Procedure #76)
Non-Book Formats and Microforms
RMC
- Rare and Manuscript collections
- No storage code is assigned; books are not barcoded or marked in any way. Books are placed on Monograph Receiving Unit supervisor's workstation for distribution.
- RMC Technical Services Specialist will be called to pick up rare items.
- Storage code: ice
- Books are delivered to the workstation of the cataloger for Icelandic materials.
Law Library Materials Received in Olin:
- Do not input.
- Some Law books are received on approval with loaded records.
- Books are sent directly to Law Library for cataloging by placing them in the hallway between rooms 110 and 111 for delivery by shipping room staff.
Non-Book Formats and Microforms:
- If the item has full copy, place on sorting table, annotating the flyer or making printouts only as necessary.
- Items that lack full copy should be set to storage. See Unit library storage codes and O/K/U language storage codes
Unit Library Storage Codes:
Items for unit libraries that lack cataloging copy are assigned a storage code for the unit library. See Unit Library storage codes. Books which are assigned a storage code are placed on the storage trucks in the physical processing unit.
O/K/U Language Storage Codes:
O/K/U items that lack cataloging copy are assigned a storage code for the broad language category in which the item is written. See O/K/U language storage codes, with a list of the storage codes and the languages that fall into each. Books which are assigned a storage code are placed on the storage trucks in the physical processing unit.