Acquisitions will "flag" books that fit into the category of New Books. Some new books fit into the category of "Recreational" and those will be interfiled with the Recreational Reading titles and be marked with a green dot.

The cataloger creates the item record with a location code of "manew" (the location will read "New Book Shelves" in ReadPAC) and a pop-up (m) message of: When checked-in, change item location to 'mains' and delete this message. There will be no special "markings" for these books (e.g. blue dots). 

 
When the Circulation staff receives these books after physical processing, they will remove the "new book" flags and return them to Acquisitions. The New Books shelf is at the beginning of the Recreational Reading area facing the Reference Room. When checking these books out, disregard the pop-up message. When checking these books in, please follow the pop-up message.

 

New Books will stay on the atrium shelves for 4 weeks. A member of the Circulation staff will run a weekly review list for items with location code  'manew'  and  'item created dates' for the 7 day period that occurred 4 weeks prior to running the list.  Circulation staff will remove the books on this list that are still on the New Book shelves, globally update those records by changing the location to 'mains' and deleting the pop-up message. Those books will then be shelved in the general collection. Titles on the review list that are in circulation will be reshelved in the general collection upon check-in.