Need Advice about Shifting (2 messages) Marcia Tuttle 22 Nov 1999 17:05 UTC
----------(1) >From MorsCa@WWC.EDU Mon Nov 22 11:58:26 1999 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:41:30 -0800 From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@WWC.EDU> Subject: Re: Need advice about shifting (Jana Comerford) First, I send a student out to calculate how many inches of free space exist on the shelves. Then I run a list of current subscriptions from the serials module. Then I send students out to do a study of how many inches each title needs for 3 years growth (if you have a lot of room, go for 4 or 5 years growth). Actually, we don't count it in inches, but boxes since we use a lot of boxes ("shelf files"). Each standard shelf will hold 8 boxes. Then we start shifting at the beginning, piling books on book trucks as necessary. We also dust at the same time. We generally save this kind of project for summer. Hope this helps. Carol ******************************************************************************** Carol Morse Tel. 509) 527-2684 Serials Librarian Fax 509) 527-2001 Walla Walla College Library Email morsca@wwc.edu 105 S.W. Adams St. College Place, WA 99324-1195 Give us strength for the journey and wisdom to know the way. ******************************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:42:27 -0600 From: Jana Comerford <jcomerford@MAIL.WTAMU.EDU> Subject: Need advice about shifting Hi, everyone. We are about to start a big shifting project and would appreciate input from people who have experience in this area. We are pulling and sending to storage the bound volumes that duplicate the content we now have on the JStor database. This will leave large gaps on our shelves, but the space is needed for newly bound volumes. No one in the department has been through a major shift, and we would appreciate hearing from people who found a way to accomplish large shifts in a planned, organized way that keeps items evenly spaced and allows for receipt of newly bound volumes. How did you do it, and is there anything you would have done differently in retrospect? Thanks so much! Jana Comerford, West Texas A&M University ----------(2) >From djpage@CSUPOMONA.EDU Mon Nov 22 11:58:26 1999 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 08:54:00 -0800 From: Don Page <djpage@CSUPOMONA.EDU> Subject: Re: Need advice about shifting (Jana Comerford) There is an excellent website called "Planning Shifts of Library Collections" by Shirien Stevens at the University of Oregon. We used it to add to our own planning process and found it very useful and comprehensive. http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~sstevens/acs/shiftplan.html Don Page. Donald J. Page, Periodicals Coordinator, Access Services University Library, 15-210 Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona 3801 W. Temple Ave. Pomona, CA 91768 (909) 869-3089 djpage@csupomona.edu fax: (909) 869-6922