Patron Notifies for Musical Scores

• Music Acquisitions will flag notifies on upon receipt with the usual streamers. Scores will be property stamped. Bound materials will be tattle-taped, unbound materials will not.
• Once a music notify item is cataloged, the cataloger will decide if the item requires further binding and whether the item can circulate without its permanent binding.
• If the item requires further binding but can circulate safely--and most items can--the cataloger will insert an item record message instructing Access Services to return the item to Music Cataloging when the patron is done with it. (If a message will be keyed to check for the presence of loose pages or parts, incorporate both statements into one message field so that it will display to person checking in the item, e.g.: Check pocket for 2 parts; Return to Music Cataloging, 0175-K, when patron returns this item.) Scores with loose leaves or parts may be put in a large envelope marked with the Composer/Title of the work and the text: ACCESS SERVICES: Please return to Music Cataloging, 0175-K, once item is checked back in.
• For items too fragile to circulate, see special binding instructions below.*
• Items only requiring labelling but no further binding do not require any of the special steps above. Proceed to the steps below.
• The cataloger will place the item on the Music Rush/Notify shelf in Export Verification (EV).
• EV will check over the information in the record and then send the item to the notify shelf in Access Services.
• Access Services will notify the patron and take care of circulating the item.
• For items requiring further binding: Once the patron has returned the item and it has been checked in and returned to Cataloging, the cataloger will remove the item message about returning it to Music Cataloging and then put it on the Music binding shelf.
• For items that do not require further binding: These will go directly to the shelves once they are returned. No item message fields will need to be edited, and the items won't need to go to Bindery/Preservation.