Sorting New Materials from Acquisitions

Non-Roman language material

Russian/Arabic/Hebrew/Japanese collections materials to sorting shelves in backlog area.

Chinese materials: notify Zenghong and she'll have her student pick them up.

Rush material

All rush materials: to rush shelf.

New serial titles (with pale blue flags)

Print-outs of e-resources: to shelf in department.

All other serials (including non-print): to new serial sorting shelf in backlog.

New mono series (with purple flags) and MPI’s and Multi-volume sets with unacceptable cataloging

To book searching shelves in backlog, with date marker.

Replacements (with green slips that say “repl”)

To replacement shelf in department.

Non-book material

All remaining non-book material: to non-book sorting shelves in backlog area. The students will do the shelving in the backlog, but we need to be sure to put the right items in the right slot on the sorting shelves.

Reference materials (with red flags or one of the Reference locations)

To cataloging shelf in department.

Cataloging questions

To cataloging shelf in department. We get very few new titles like this, but watch for notes indicating cataloging questions.

All Remaining Books

To book searching shelves in backlog, with date marker.

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