Here at Coventry University we continued putting in date labels for the reasons that you mention below. Our self-issue machines issue receipts, and we found that students got used to either keeping those and/or checking their library accounts online. Now that we have automatic renewals, I suspect that they will just keep the books until they no longer need them or receive a recall because someone has reserved it.
Once we ran out of our stocks of the labels we didn't buy any more; we think that was around 3 years ago. No-one has since complained, in fact we had a visitor from Germany after we had started self-issue and she asked why we were still putting the date labels in.
We only have one library, so just having one library stamp on the top edge of the book is sufficient for us. Where we have separate collections (such as Reference) we prefix the spine label with that information (eg. Ref. Coll.)
Best wishes,
Sandy
Ms. S. Forster
Information Resource Manager
Coventry University Library
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We're a small hospital library and we still have date labels. We had a short discussion but find that when self issuing, some people like to write the date in the book (they might lose the slip of paper), so we continue to stick them in. As you say, they also give the user useful details (although we could use a shorter credit-card sized insert, I suppose) about how to renew, how to contact us, etc.
Also, when we lend a book to another library we write where it is going and the date we send it & the contact details are useful for the other library if they want to renew, etc, as they haven't got to look us up.
Also, many of our users don't use the online facility for checking due dates and for renewing, though I suspect the younger generation, such as students, do that sort of thing as a matter of course.
Best Wishes
Tricia Rey
Library Services Manager
Queen Victoria Hospital
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West Sussex
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Hi Everyone
A late Friday afternoon question for you. We no longer charge fines, and we automatically renew books up to 12 times, I think some people call it dynamic loans. We vary rarely use date stamps, because of this and self service. We are wondering whether we should stop putting date labels in books, but the label clearly states the ownership of the book and we colour code according to library. We stopped having book plates some time ago. I was wondering has anybody else decided to stop having date labels, and if so how do you mark ownership and location beyond the accession stamps. Also, has anybody else had a similar discussion and decided to keep with date labels, if so why.
Have a nice weekend.
Regards
Vicki (McGarvey)
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