Armed Forces Medical Library

Date:
01 March1953
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/96
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Armed Forces Medical Library. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Follow-up. Continuous follow-up of orders is an integral part of the ordering process, After the introduction of the photographic system of ordering, all the old letter size hold copies of orders were converted to 3 x 5 cards. These were then photographed with & claim mask, and the resulting prints sent to suppliers as follow— bah At the end of 1952 plans were being made for the installation a schedule under which domestic orders will be claimed automati- A every month and foreign orders every two months. Personnel. As a result of the new procedures and the elimina-— of Processing Assistant with that of Receiving Assistant. One person was therefore transferred to the Serials Section as a checker to help cope with that Section's increased workload, SERIAIS SECTION Changes. Removal of most of the Biobibliography Collection made possible a major improvement in the working conditions of this Sec- tion. The Kardex units were taken off stationary tables end pleced on turn-tables providing access to the scrial records from both sides; this gives the checkers greater freedom of movement and additional personnel can be used during peak load emergencies. Another change was the assignment of one person to the task of opening and alpha-— betizing the serial mail; formerly this hod been done on a casual basis by all the checkers. Two importent projects pertaining to the Scction's records were completed during the year. Fora long time nothing had been done to weed the subscription list of titles no longer being published. This year the entire file wes scanned prior to the placing of renew— als; out of 4,300 titles, over 1,300 were discarded as having ccased publication, The other project involved the discontinuence of the Geogranhical File of serials, which was found to be talking more time to maintain than was warranted by its value, Cleiming. The problem of follow-up of missing serial issues, particularly of those journals indexed in the Current List of Medical Literature, received considerable attention during the year. It is hoped that adherence to the present claiming schedule will keep at @ minimum the number of gaps in the Librery's periodical collection, Under this schedule all entries for journals indexed in the Current List are examined monthly for claiming; all other entries are ecxam-— ined quartocrly.
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