Re: questions regarding open current periodical stacks Pennington, Buddy D. 03 May 2007 20:29 UTC
Are are my answers: 1. Do you keep your current periodicals in a separate place from your bound periodicals? All current periodicals together? Or do you shelve them mixed in with the bound volumes? - They are shelved with the bound volumes. 2. Approximately how many subscriptions to print journals and magazines do you have? - Approximately 3,500 titles. 3. Do you eventually bind most of them or toos them? - We bind the vast majority of our titles. 4. How do you shelve/display the current issues before they've been bound? (We currently are using hanging folders for the closed stacks. I don't think they will work well in open stacks.) - We put the unbound issues in magazine boxes. 5. Do you restrict the use of the current periodicals to a floor or room? Or can they be taken anywhere in the library? - We do not provide inhouse restrictions. The unbound issues do not checkout at our main library but do check out at our dental and health sciences library. 6. Do you security strip all issues, most issues, random issues, weighted towards titles that more often disappear? - We only security strip a select few titles. Those with a history of disappearing (art magazines, Sports illustrated, etc.). One thing I would like to add is that the attrition rate is much lower than you might think. In fact, most of our incomplete volumes are due to not being able to get claimed issues. For us, the number of issues that go missing is probably small enough to be statistically insignificant. Buddy Pennington Serial Acquisitions Librarian University of Missouri - Kansas City University Libraries www.umkc.edu/lib -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Hemhauser Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:56 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] questions regarding open current periodical stacks We have always had closed current periodical stacks and are planning to move to open stacks. I would like to get some idea of how other academic libraries arrange their current periodicals in open stacks. This listserv seems the ideal way to gather that info from many libraries. 1. Do you keep your current periodicals in a separate place from your bound periodicals? All current periodicals together? Or do you shelve them mixed in with the bound volumes? 2. Approximately how many subscriptions to print journals and magazines do you have? 3. Do you eventually bind most of them or toos them? 4. How do you shelve/display the current issues before they've been bound? (We currently are using hanging folders for the closed stacks. I don't think they will work well in open stacks.) 5. Do you restrict the use of the current periodicals to a floor or room? Or can they be taken anywhere in the library? 6. Do you security strip all issues, most issues, random issues, weighted towards titles that more often disappear? Thank you for your replies. Mark Hemhauser American University Library--Serials & E-Resources Washington, DC 20016