Collection Services & Development Archive

Materials Services Division Updates for April 2014

Since the beginning of the fiscal year a total of 11863 customer suggestions were received in MSL. This averages out to 282 suggestions per week. In the first 3 weeks of April nearly 772 suggestions were received.
Since the beginning of the fiscal year, 26859 titles and 180262 items were selected and ordered for the system. This averages out to 655 titles and 4396 items per week.
Since the beginning of July, a total of 699 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. 391 boxes were sent to the booksale, 144 boxes of transfers and 21 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for March 2014

Since the beginning of the fiscal year a total of 10,479 customer suggestions were received in MSL. This averages out to 276 suggestions per week. In the first 2 weeks of March nearly 600 suggestions were received.

Since the beginning of the fiscal year, 22,889 titles and 154,717 items were selected and ordered for the system. This averages out to 636 titles and 4300 items per week.

Since the beginning of July, a total of 620 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. 332 boxes were sent to the booksale, 132 boxes of transfers and 18 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for February 2014

From July 1, 2013 to February 21, 2014, MSL received a total of 9,581 customer suggestions, for an average of 282 per week.

Since the beginning of FY14, 20,648 titles and 139,412 items were selected and ordered. This averages to 625 titles and 4,224 items per week.

Since the beginning of July, a total of 563 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. 298 boxes were sent to the booksale, 122 boxes of transfers and 16 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for January 2014

Since the beginning of July a total of 7731 customer suggestions have been received in MSL. On average we received 276 per week. In the first 2 weeks of January 565 suggestions were received.

Since the first of July, a total of 17102 titles have been selected and 114759 items ordered.

Since the beginning of July 432 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. During that time 242 boxes have been sent to the Friends, 111 boxes of transfers sent to CAT and 15 boxes of gifts sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for December 2013

Since the beginning of July, a total of 6,754 customer suggestions have been received in MSL. On average, we received 270 per week. In the first 2 weeks of December 466 suggestions were received.

Since the first of July, a total of 15,207 titles have been selected and 101,009 items ordered. During the first 3 weeks of December, 2,468 titles and 15,176 items were ordered.

Since the beginning of July 376 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. During that time 211 boxes have been sent to the Friends, 101 boxes of transfers sent to CAT and 13 boxes of gifts sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for November 2013

Since the beginning of FY14, a total of 12,026 titles and 82,612 items were selected. The average per week is 601 titles and 4,130 items.

Since the beginning of July, a total of 5,869 customer suggestions were received. The average per week is 294 suggestions.

A total of 346 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL since the beginning of the fiscal year. During October and the first 2 weeks of November, 102 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in the MSL basement. A total of 82 boxes of transfers and 12 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT since the beginning of the fiscal year. During October and the first 2 weeks of November, 18 boxes of transfers and 2 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT.

Materials Services Division Updates for October 2013

Since the beginning of the fiscal year 4078 customer suggestions have been received, for an average of 272 per week. During September, 1173 customer suggestions were received.

Since 7/1/13, 9135 titles were selected for an average of 609 titles per week. 63926 items were selected for an average of 4262 per week.

From Sept. 2 to Oct. 7th, 135 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received from the libraries. 29 boxes of transfers and 3 boxes of gifts were sent to cataloging for processing. 43 boxes were sent to the Friends. During September Selection staff spent nearly 150 hours working with the withdrawals and gifts. So far in October, staff spent nearly 47 hours working with these materials.

Materials Services Division Updates for September 2013

Since the beginning of July, a total of 3502 customer suggestions were received. During the first 3 weeks of September, 849 suggestions were received. Most suggestions are for print titles.

Since the beginning of July, a total of 7357 titles were selected for the system and a total of 52582 items. During the first 3 weeks of September 1742 titles and 13590 items were selected.

2,901 new titles were cataloged during August, including 595 e-media titles.

21,149 barcode labels were printed in August; 20,151 for new materials and 998 for reprocessed materials.

2,034 new titles were received in Cataloging during August.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in August was 2.75 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

Materials Services Division Updates for August 2013

- During July, Materials Selection received 1425 suggestions to purchase material, for an average of 285 suggestions per week.
- Selection ordered a total of 3020 titles and 21400 items during July. In the first two weeks of August there have been 949 titles ordered with a total of 7833 items.
- 2,991 new titles were cataloged during July, including 358 e-media titles.
- 24,652 barcode labels were printed in July; 23,076 for new materials and 1,576 for reprocessed materials.
- 3,488 new titles were received in Cataloging during July.

Materials Services Division Updates for July 2013

Materials Selection:
In June, Materials Selection selected 5,134 titles and 33,273 items, ending the year with a total of 41,560 titles and 263,504 items. Also in June, MSL received 1,247 suggestions to purchase material for a total of 16,442 items for the year.

Technical Processing:
The average daily run for June was 937 items per day, for a total of 18,746 items. The average for July so far is 1,059 items per day. The processors are current on processing all rush materials and are processing non-rush materials from the run 10 days ago. Study guides and dated materials like continuations are also current. For FY13, TP processed a total of 231,817 items, that’s a daily average of 924 items, and an increase of about 1% compared to FY12.

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