Shelf ready book supply
at the University of
Sheffield
Speeding things up without dumbing things
down
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Contents
• Drivers for change
• The shelf ready timeline
• The shelf ready process
• Shelf ready record checking
• Summary
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Drivers for change
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The shelf ready timeline
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The shelf ready process
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Shelf ready list checking
• Check
• 650/651
• Authority fields
• Delete
• 263, 300 (if no pagination), 521, 852
• Retain
• 049, 856, 909
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Summary
• Shelf ready necessary to reduce book
handling by cataloguers
• Process refined over time
• Achieved balance between speed and
maintaining high quality of data
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