This summer the Serials Dept. at Lehigh University in the Fairchild
    Library will be rearranging our current periodical collection
    of about 3500 titles. We are having more shelving installed and
    we are refiling the initialisms letter by letter like the OPACs do
    instead of filing them at the beginning of the file. At this point,
    we are still filing the Science, Math & Social Science current
    periodicals in separate alphabetical ranges. The past reasons for
    this arrangement is the faculty only want to scan through the journals
    in their areas and that we have too big a collection to have it all
    in one alphabetical range.

    The QUESTION is: How do libraries handle this number or larger
    collections? If it is in one alphabetical range not subdivided by
    broad subject areas, have there been any comments made on the
    arrangement?

    Please respond to me directly. Your answers will help me with my
    proposal!  Thank-you very much

Sharon Wiles-Young
Lehigh Universtity Libraries
slw0@Lehigh.edu