We solved this problem by simply shelving titles that didn’t fit with fore-edge shelving.  Then our director said that was too much stress on the binding so we switched to spine edge shelving.  Actually there were not a lot of titles that had to be shelved this way.

Christina McCawley

West Chester University

West Chester, PA 19383

cmccawley@wcupa.edu

610-436-2656

From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of bpope
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:45 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] oversize

Hello, everyone out there in Serials-land. 

We are looking at getting compact shelving soon.  I have been asked to find out how much of our bound periodicals area is considered oversize, as it may have be shelved separate from compact shelving.  What is considered oversize with bound volumes?  A cataloger in our tech services said anything over 30 cm (11.8 inches).  By that definition, according to my student employee, Economist magazine is oversize, which does not seem right to me.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Barbara M. Pope, MALS

Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Axe Library

Pittsubrg State University

1701 S. Broadway

Pittsburg KS  66762

620-235-4884

bpope@pittstate.edu