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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks everyone for the fantastic tips for counting in house magazine use. Here are the four methodologies which seem most prevalent (with variations).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"><strong>Method 1 (Put a tally sheet on the current
issue and ask patrons to self tally)</strong></span><br>
<span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Every
few years or so we do a use survey by attaching with removable tape a fairly large piece of paper on the cover of the current issue, that says something like – “we are glad you enjoy reading this magazine. Please let us know by making a hash mark on this tally
sheet.” We keep a cup of pencils in the room during the survey time. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We
put it on a new issue and leave it until the next issue comes in. We generally do the survey for about 3 weeks to a month. The weeklies would get a new paper with each issue.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"><strong>Method 2 (Ask patrons to place all used mags in a
basket, then checkin or tally)</strong></span></span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #000000;">I've worked in libraries that have baskets on the tables near magazine and newspaper shelving. There are signs indicating that all magazines should be placed there rather
than back on the shelf. Every couple hours, a staff member empties the baskets and scans these as "used" in the automated system or just makes a tally mark under the magazine's name on a piece of paper to keep track of what is being used. That way the magazines
don't stay in the baskets too long and they can be reshelved regularly. </span><font style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You could set carts or baskets out and ask people
to return the magazines there, instead of to the shelf when they're done reading. Similar to what academic libraries to record usage statistics.</span></font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </font><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Does
your circ system have any in-house use monitoring function? We use Sirsi/Workflows which has a feature called 'Mark Item Used.' We use this in general just to count the number of items pulled off shelves, not checked out but in need of reshelving each month.
It is a way of tracking use without artificially inflating the circulation statistics. The reporting software does allow track this by material type as well. </span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>M</strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>ethod 3 (Pick up unshelved items and check them out to a dummy account)</strong></span></span></div>
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account set up as 'inhouse'. Any items left out on tables, placed at the ends of shelves, etc are checked out to 'inhouse', discharged, and sorted to shelve. Each inhouse check out shows up in our system as a checkout. This method doesn't differentiate
between regular checkouts and inhouse, but it is something.</span></font><font style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></font><br style="font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Method 4 (Survey patrons)</strong></span><br style="font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Every few years we conduct a simple survey by making forms available to patrons in the magazine area and online.</span></span><br>
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<div style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px;"><i style="color: #222222;"><font size="1"><b>Reading: </b></font></i><i style="font-size: 13px;"><font color="#333333" size="1">"Sycamore Row" by John Grisham</font></i></div>
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