<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Andrea Mucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amucha@cityofwarren.org" target="_blank">amucha@cityofwarren.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>We have a user 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.</p>
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<p>Andrea Mucha</p>
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<p>Warren Public Library</p>
<p>Dorothy M Busch Branch</p>
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<p>Warren MI 48091</p>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org</a> <<a href="mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l-bounces@mail.mcls.org</a>> on behalf of Kelli Perkins <<a href="mailto:kperkins@herrickdl.org" target="_blank">kperkins@herrickdl.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:05 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Michlib-l] Magazine Use</font>
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<p>Has anyone found an effective way to count magazine use beyond circulation? Since this is such a browsing collection, I haven't found a way to determine how much use individual titles get from browsers who don't check them out. Ideas? I have seen fancy mechanisms
that physically count how many times something is lifted from the shelf, but I'm looking for a more low tech solution!<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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