RE: Write call number on title page and labeling procedures

[akroeger@xxxxxxxxxx]

"Swelland, Shelley" <SwellanS@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> What is a SL6 slip?  How do you create one?  Do you print them before you
> receive the material or when you are processing it?

In OCLC's Passport for Windows, when you have a bib record on the screen,
type the command "sl6" (without the quotation marks, of course) and hit F10
or F11. (It doesn't matter if you do this before or after exporting the bib
to your Innopac system.) It brings up a screen that displays the LC call
number, author, and title in a human-eye-friendly layout. Then we just hit
the print button, then tuck the printout in the book.

We do this while processing the book in Cataloging, since that is the only
time we use OCLC. (Acquisitions, for example, doesn't even have the PfW
software loaded on their computers.) The only thing we attach to the book
during Cataloging is the barcode itself. Then the processed books with
their barcodes and SL6 slips go to Labelling for the addition of call
numbers, date due slips, and property stamps. We don't have pockets or book
labels.

The labellers leave the SL6 slips tucked in the book after they've
finished. The last thing that happens before the books go to the shelves is
that someone checks each book against the record in the Innopac, to make
sure the call number label, barcode, and title all match. The person who
does this checking is the one who removes the SL6 slip.

We used to keep the SL6 slips for a couple of months, but we eventually
discontinued this practice since the boxes of slips cluttered up the area
and were never actually used for anything. Now the slips are just discarded
(into the recycling bin, of course) as the books are checked.

Now, the SL6 always takes the call number from the 050 or 090. As I was
writing this message, I wondered what Dewey libraries were supposed to do.
So I found a random bib with both an LC and a Dewey number. SL4 seems to
produce a different printout for the LC call number (one which looks like
it might be good for making book labels from, actually), but no other
SL[number] commands seemed to do anything. Does anyone know the way to
produce something like this for Dewey call numbers? (I don't need it, but I
ask out of deferrence to Dewey-using collegues.)  :-)

I hope some of this information is useful.

--Anj

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Angela Kroeger
akroeger@xxxxxxxxxx
UNOmaha Library, Monographic Cataloging
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Omaha, Nebraska--non-stop, pulse-pounding excitement day after day.