McNaughton Plan Procedures - Discontinued 2012




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McNaughton Plan Procedures - Discontinued 2012

 
General Guidelines for Circulation of Materials in the McNaughton Collection:

  • Books from the McNaughton collection will circulate to current UMBC students, staff, and faculty only.
  • There will be no holds or recalls for books in the collection.
  • The books will circulate to all patron types for 28 days with up to one renewal.
  • Patrons may have up to five books from the McNaughton collection checked out at one time.
  • Regular book fines apply for overdue items in the collection. 

Setup for the McNaughton Collection:

  • Vicki will request from ITD a collection code of BC-BC LRD [to display in public catalog as Leisure Reading].
  • The determined call number arrangement will be:
    • FIC AND_de or NON AND_de [Fiction or Non-fiction, first three letters of author's last name, first two letters of book title]
  • Drew will prepare the physical space in the Library's rotunda to house the collection.
  • Katy will complete the paperwork and send to McNaugton rep.
  • Katy, Robin, and Drew will finalize the list of "core titles" for the collection.

Workflow for the McNaughton Collection:

Adding Books:

  • Katy will select and order 20 books to add to the collection each month.
    • www.mcnaughtonbooks.com
    • User Name: 1917887
    • Password: aok21250
  • Books will arrive monthly in Accounting and Receiving.
  • A&R will contact Daniel Gallaher, who will check over the shipment (check books to shipping list).
  • After checking the shipment against the shipping list, Daniel will give the lists to Katy for her files.
  • Daniel will put newly arrived books on a flagged truck, and send truck to Cataloging:
    • First 200 titles "core collection" will be sent to Vicki, who will oversee cataloging
    • Additional titles (in groups of 20) will be sent to Ping, who will oversee cataloging
  • Ping will send cataloged titles on a flagged cart to the Reference Office.
  • Daniel will enter new titles in the McNaughton spreadsheet - Sheet 1 (I:\Reference\McNaughton Collection\corelist.xlsx).
  • Daniel will send to Katy to review new titles, then arrange to have new titles shelved when Katy returns them.
  • Reference will will handle maintenance of the collection:
    • Shelving and arrangement of new titles
      • Books will be shelved into two groups - fiction and non-fiction.
      • Books will arranged by the first three letters of the author's name and first two letters of book title.
    • Maintenance of general collection [will be added to reference student rounds]
      • Shelf read regularly to ensure books are in order.
      • Tidy shelves when necessary.
      • Ensure that copies of "Policies for Circulation of Books in the McNaughton Collection" are available for patrons.  If more copies need to be made, the file is available at I:/Reference/McNaughton Collection/McNaughton Policies.
    • Retrieving and shelving returned books from the "reference" bin in Circulation

Removing Books:

  • Katy will pull (roughly) 20 books each month to send back to McNaughton.
  • Katy will desensitize the books.
  • These books, on a flagged truck, will be sent to Robin to have their statuses changed.
  • Robin will send the flagged truck to Ping to remove catalog record.
  • Covers can stay ON the books.
  • Ping will send the flagged truck to Daniel, who will:
    • Remove titles from Sheet 1 of the spreadsheet (I:\Reference\McNaughton Collection\corelist.xlsx), and add titles to Sheet 2.
    • Pack books to be shipped and include a list of titles in each shipment.
    • Copy shipping label and title list and put in Katy's box.
    • Add tracking number to each title in Sheet 2 of corelist.xlsx.
    • Seal boxes, affix shipping label, and take to A & R to be shipped.

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