Procedure Manual

Daily:

Opener - Retrieve newspapers from book drop and process them before library opens 

Off desk staff - Process incoming mail

All  staff - catalog daily arrivals, process occasional newspapers, attend to email requests, OCLC requests, magazine bundles, staff desk, put away items on shelf and straighten, work on assigned Public Services projects 

Weekly:

Attend to repairs

Review title changes in EBSCO 

Monthly:

Discard old newspapers - keep past 2 months for all except T&G (keep 3)

Gather statistics for periodicals desk

Inventory newspaper on the 15th of each month and contact EBSCO for credit/replacement

Weed popular magazines area; re-process duplicates to Per. area

Bi-monthly

Inventory EBSCO titles for cancellations, title change etc.

Yearly

Weed issues older than two years (retain 5 years or longer for select titles)

Cataloging:

Each staff member has a cataloging account set up with Evergreen. The records are generic and named wxper01, wxper02, wxper03 etc. New employees will use these accounts moving forward.