Processing Titles Requested by Students

Purpose: To provide prominent access to specific titles requested by students that will be shelved in the Reserve Reading Room.  Titles will reside there for a couple years but ultimately move to the general stacks.

Incoming Leased Titles

• Arrive from Acquisitions on shelf a few at a time with Dark Purple flags. 
• Follow usual copy cataloging steps with these item record distinctions:
  • loc = orrr
  • itype = 101
• Gifts - some titles will be gifts and require physical and/or virtual bookplates
• Physical processing
  • Call number label should include the prefix: RRR
  • sensor strips required

Titles cycled through to General Stacks

1. Search title in URSUS
2. Update item record location for general stacks (location =osta)
3. Neatly mark out the call number prestamp "RRR" on the physical volume
4. Send on to Circulation for reshelving

Return to Technical Services procedures

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Created by: Library Staff | Revised: 12/27/2011