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Receiving Monographs in Non-Shelf-Ready Shipments

DRAFT–PARTIAL

Recognizing monographic versus serials mail

It's not always clear from the packaging which items are serials(for Diana and Judy to receive) and which are monographs (for Susan) but items likely to be monographs often have one of these characteristics

Unpacking monographs

Receiving items

Situations requiring additional procedures

Endowments

(See Endowment Fund Orders for more information on endowments, including procedures for ordering materials using endowment funds.)

Art Approval Plan Books and Children's/Juvenile Award Books These monographic materials are sent automatically, but are not shelf-ready, and have no pre-existing records in ALEPH.

Z5000-Z9999 Call Numbers

Bibliographies with classification numbers in the range Z5000-Z9999 often have 050 call number fields with an alternate classification number in the bibliography's subject field. In these cases, you should use the alternate classification number, replacing the default Z subfield a with the alternate, subject-based subfield a. For example, the book “The ALA guide to information sources in insurance, risk management, and actuarial science” is associated with OCLC #915159395. That record has this 050 field: “Z7164.I7 ǂb H43 2016 ǂa HG8051”. After downloading that record into Aleph, we edit this so the 050 field in our catalog reads “HG8051 |b H43 2016” before creating the holdings record.

Monographic Continuations

Volume information on the book, and/or in the record may indicate that the title is not complete in the single item in hand.

Receiving DVDs

Primary Contact: Susan Pease