Hi Nancy,
We also keep our periodicals separate from the rest of the collection, however, in case you want to take a look (and you haven't been contacted by them already), NCState does a really nice job of this. Their serials are all classed, and you can browse their online catalog and see both monographs and serials.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/

It's pretty neat!

Take care,

Rebecca Martinez
Distributed Technical Services Coordinator/Serials Team Leader

Email: rannmart@rulmail.rutgers.edu

Rutgers University Libraries
Alexander Library
Distributed Technical Services
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Tel: (732) 932-7388 ext. 119
Fax: (732) 932-8141

From: "Nancy Bennett" <nbennett@CARROLLU.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:09:47 PM
Subject: [SERIALST] Periodicals inter-filed with Main Collection

Hello all.

I am still fairly new to Serials (6 months) and my director has come up with an idea of inter-filing the print periodicals with our main collection. They would still be non-circulating, but he feels that inter-filing them will increase usage because they will be more browseable.

What are the philosophical thoughts on having this set-up? Pros and Cons? Has anyone made this change and what did you learn? Did it increase usage of the periodicals? What would you have done differently? What timeline did you have? (He wants this done this summer, which seems unrealistic at best).

Any insights would be greatly appreciated. You can contact me off-list if you wish and I can compile a summary for the list.

Thanks so much!

Nancy

Nancy A. Bennett

Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian

Carroll University Library

100 N. East Ave.

Waukesha, WI 53186

262-650-4886

nbennett@carrollu.edu