RE: Benefits of Create List?

[David Ruml <David.Ruml@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Here at Carrollton, we use them alot.  I create lists of missing and billed
items and switch them to lost each month.  I create lists of lost items and
delete them.  The collection developers create lists for the Dewey sections
they oversee, to check on low-circ items that may need to be withdrawn.  We
get most of our MARC records from our vendors...if the vendor includes a
MARC tag that we don't want in the records, I create a list of all bibs with
that tag and then use Global Update to mass-delete the tag.  We run lists of
patrons who owe a certain amount or more.  Or patrons whose cards are
long-expired, and delete them.  The City likes when we justify our existence
by producing numbers, so we use create lists to gather some statistics, such
as how many new patrons were registered in a certain month, or how many bibs
and items we added.  We also run a list each morning of items that are
waiting to be cataloged and have patron holds on them.  Other lists are of
new and upcoming books, which are then linked to the library home page so
patrons can look them up and place holds.  There are lists of orders that
have been cancelled, so that we can try to get them from another vendor.
Lists of bib records that have holds on them but no items attached, to see
if we can order copies to fill the holds.  Lists of bibs that have no
records attached, where the item or order was deleted but the bib was not.
I'm sure I've left stuff out, but you get the idea.  We would be lost with
the create list function.

DAVID E. RUML
Carrollton Public Library
Carrollton, Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole Abbott [mailto:nabbott@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:26 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Benefits of Create List?


I'm interested in knowing how various types of librarians (eg. 
collection development, catalogers, etc.) utilize the create list 
function in their work.  
I am in the process of preparing a regional conference presentation and 
would like to be able to offer a variety of examples as to how create 
list may be used to assist in job related tasks.  Any examples will be 
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Nicole    




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Nicole Abbott
Assistant Collection Development Librarian
University of Houston Libraries
114 University Libraries
Houston, TX 77204-2000
e-mail:  nabbott@xxxxxxxxxx
phone:  713/743-9334
fax:  713/743-9811


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