[Conntech] Question for academic libraries - Pls respond "off list"

[Bill Uricchio]

Hello --  I'm pondering developing an "open reserve stack" that would
allow patron self-service for most of our book reserves.  The books will
be clearly marked as "in-house use" and protected by our book security
system.  The one problem I am wrestling with is how to count use.  Right
now our books are behind our circ desk (we don't have a separate
Reserves Room) and we have a mechanism to do a traffic count as we hand
them out.  I'd like to avoid having my staff do a "browse" count by
wanding the "open reserves" before reshelving but that may be the only
way to get statistics.  Is anyone doing "open reserves" now with a neat,
easy way to do a count?  Please respond to me personally (ie "off
list").  Thanks very much, Bill U

 

William Uricchio

Director 

Greater Hartford Campus Harleigh B. Trecker Library

University of Connecticut 

1800 Asylum Avenue

West Hartford, CT 06117-2699

Phone: 860-570-9028; Fax: 860-570-9027

william.uricchio at uconn.edu

 

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