MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Policy and Procedure Statement 2.5.4

Do Not Catalog Materials

January 1996

I. Certain categories of material are not to be catalogued. These categories are as follows:

A. Office reference materials for personal use.

B. Sample copies of serials.

C. Vertical file materials.

II. Library collection areas which order items which are not to be cataloged are to type DO NOT CAT in the box in the upper right hand corner of the order request card or write the words on the top of a stamped OCLC printout.

III. The Acquisitions Department will not search do not cat orders and will type DO NOT CAT in the external note field on the Innopac record.

IV. When Do No Catalog materials are received in Monograph Acquisitions they are distributed in the following manner instead of being sent through the normal cataloging process:

A. Materials for professional use are sent directly to the person who has ordered them.