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Unicorn location, collection or status codes for use in LOCATION

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OPAC Location Display What goes there?
Red indicates shadowed locations which do not require manual masking.
ACQ Acquisitions Dept. Publicly-accessible materials housed in Acquisitions
ACQ-APPROV Acquisitions Dept. - Approval Plan Temp location for approval titles
ACQ-C Acquisitions Dept. Temp location
ACQ-ELEC Acquisitions Dept. - Electronic orders Temp location for e-resource orders
ACQ-S Acquisitions Dept. - Serials Temp location for serial orders
ACQ-TEST Acquisitions Dept. - For testing  
ARCHIVES University Archives Archival materials (UA); for MC use MANUSCRIPT
AUCTIONCAT Auction Catalogs SCRC auction catalog collection (Sotheby's, etc.)
AVAIL_SOON Available soon  
BINDERY Material at the bindery Material charged out to bindery
CANCELLED Cancelled titles Orders cancelled by Acquisitions
CATALOGING Cataloging Department Publicly-accessible materials housed in Cataloging
CHECKEDOUT Checked out Material currently charged out to patron
CIRCDESK Circulation Desk Materials housed behind Circ Desk
CUR-PER Current Periodicals Periodical display area--use for "Keeps latest issue only" titles; not for loose issues awaiting binding
DALTON Pat Dalton Collection LRL only
DISCARD   Withdrawn from the collection
DISPLAY Front Display LRL only
DOCMISSING   Document for which Smart barcode was created by Marcive, but missing from collection
DUKE Offsite Storage Materials sent to Duke Storage Facility
DUKESHADOW   Materials sent to Duke Storage Facility
ELL English Language Learners LRL only
EQUINE Equine Health Center, Southern Pines Use BOOKNOCIRC for materials
EXHIBITS Exhibits  
FACPUBS-RR Faculty Publications collection - Reading Room SCRC copy 2 for public display
FACULTYPUB Faculty Publications collection  
FCTL   Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning
GPO   Marcive GPO Notification Service record (temp)
GRAPH-NOV Graphic Novels LRL only
HIST-FICT Historical Fiction LRL only
HOLDS On hold  
ILL On loan to another library  
INPROCESS Being cataloged  
INSHIPPING Being shipped to destination Material in routing
INTRANSIT Being transferred between libraries Material in routing
JUV-FICT Juvenile fiction collection (LRL)
JUV-OVER Juvenile fiction oversize (LRL)
KIT Kit Collection  
LAH-REF Large Animal Hospital Bijou Reference Collection  
LONGOVRDUE   Items long overdue
LOST   Lost status
LOST-ASSUM   Assumed lost
LOST-CLAIM   Claims lost
LOST-PAID   Lost status- bill paid
LTS   Learning Technology Services
MANUSCRIPT Manuscripts Manuscripts Collection (MC)
MAPS Map Collection  
MATERIALS Materials collection  
MATH Mathematics For Math Dept. Working Collection
MEDIA Media Collection For A-V material housed within a separate media collection
MEDIA-CIRC Circulation Desk Circulating AV media
MEDIA-OVER Media Collection Oversize For media materials too large for compact shelving
MEDIA-STO D.H. Hill Media Storage Feature films & media, non-circulating
METCALF Zeno Metcalf Collection  
MICROFORMS Microforms For microfiche/film housed within a separate microforms collection
MISSING   Current location for items missing but not yet declared LOST
NCDOCS North Carolina documents temp Inactive collection; these should now be STACKS
NCDOCS-MF North Carolina microform documents State documents, classed in NCDOCS number in Microform Collection
NCLIVE NC Live  
NET Internet resource Generic location for Websites, locally networked or Internet-accessible publications
NETDOC Internet resource GPO title  
NEWBOOK New book shelf Temp "Current" Location
NOLOC   Temporary swap text for global edits
OFF-ACQ, etc.   Office-use only material
OFFICE Office copy (not for Hill) Office-use only material
ON-ORDER Being acquired by the library  
OVERSIZE Folio Spine height 31-40 cm.
Exception: DESIGN. Use STACKS
OVERSIZE2 Folio 2 Spine height greater than 41 cm.
PRAGUE Prague Institute  
PRESERV Preservation Dept.  
PRV Provost's Office  
REF Reference material Includes REF books, CD-ROMs in cabinet
REF-ATLAS Reference atlas case Large atlases shelved in atlas case
REF-DESK Reference desk  
REF-GIS Reference desk GIS cabinet. This location is for GIS materials that are LC-classed CD-ROMs, DVDs and some booklets.  
REF-MAP Reference map case  
REF-OVER Reference oversized  
REF-OVER2 Reference oversized 2  
REF-USDOCS Reference U.S. depository collection SuDoc-classified & related materials within Reference collection
REPAIR Temporarily unavailable. Inquire at Circulation Desk.  
RESERVES Reserve shelves  
RESHELVING Just returned Temporary location for materials awaiting reshelving
RSRV-DES Design Library Course Reserve  
RSRV-DESK Reserve Desk shelves Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
RSRV-DLS   Reserve--Distance Learning Services
RSRV-ELEC Electronic reserve  
RSRV-HILL DHHILL Course Reserve Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
RSRV-LRL College of Education Learning Services Reserve Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
RSRV-MEDIA DHHILL Media reserve  
RSRV-NRL Natural Resources Library Course Reserve Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
RSRV-TEXTL Textiles Library Course Reserve Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
RSRV-VML Veterinary Medicine Library Course Reserve Full-service Reserve materials (not browsable)
SLS Marcive Shipping List Service record (temp) Temporary brief record for depository materials not yet received
SMALLBOOK Small book Spine height less than 11 cm.
This location is confined to DESIGN
SPANNED   Migration problem records
SPEC Special Collections rare books For use at branches; for DHHILL use Library=SPECCOLL
SPEC-D Special Collections Special Collections materials at Duke Storage
SPEC-OD Special Collections Theses/Dissertations at Duke Special Collections materials held at Duke Storage
SPEC-VML Veterinary History Collection  
STACKS Stacks  
TECHLEND Learning Commons (and other branch library equipment locations)  
TESTCOL Educational/Psych test collection  
TEXTBOOK Textbook collection NC public curriculum textbooks
UNKNOWN   Unknown (temporary)
US-DOCS U.S. documents Federal depository materials shelved using SuDocs classification
US-DOCS-CB U.S. documents media cabinet For stand-alone federal depository CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs classed in SuDocs #
US-DOCS-MF U.S. documents microform Microfiche filed using SuDocs classification
US-DOCS-O2 U.S. documents Oversized 2 Federal depository materials with spine height greater than 41 cm.
US-DOCS-OV U.S. documents Oversized Federal depository materials with spine height between 31-40 cm.
US-DOCS-PF U.S. documents pamphlet file Depository materials of less than 16 p.
US-DOCS-PT U.S. patents & trademarks cabinet For USPTO depository program patent and trademark CD-ROMs and DVDs
VETS V.E.T.S. Collection (VetMed textbooks)  
WC-BAENG   Biological & Agricultural departmental collection
WC-BOTANY   Botany departmental collection
WC-CHEM   Chemistry departmental collection
WC-ECONBUS   Economics and Business departmental collection
WC-FOODSCI   Food Science departmental collection
WC-MUSIC   Music departmental collection
WC-NUCENG   Nuclear Engineering departmental collection
WC-POLISCI   Political Science departmental collection
WC-SOCANTH   Sociology & Anthropology departmental collection
WC-ZOOLOGY   Zoology departmental collection
WITHDRAWN   Home location of materials removed from collection

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