We have two periodical areas on the second floor of a 3-story building.  We have a current periodicals area with slanted display/storage beneath.  Annuals go directly into the bound stacks.  Semi-annual or anything published more frequently lives in the current periodicals until the volume is completed, pulled for bindery then placed into the bound stacks upon its return.

-Steve

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From: "Jason Skoog" <jaskooglists@GMAIL.COM>
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 3:16:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] New Periodicals Areas vs. Stacks

This might be a silly question, but for people who keep a year's worth of journals, do you go by academic year or by calendar year?  I guess the journal world revolves around calendar year, so that's probably what most people do.

I'm clearing out some journals we don't subscribe to, so we have a lot more room in our current periodicals area.  I'm considering putting a year's worth up there instead of 3 like we currently do.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Steve Oberg <steve.oberg@wheaton.edu> wrote:
We also have a café where we’ve chosen to place the most current issues of a small number of periodicals (e.g. ESPN, Time), and newspapers on traditional newspaper racks.

In sum, we have three locations:
  • a small number (but only the very latest issue) in café
  • a periodicals reading room with shelving just like others have described, where the most recent issues are kept
  • bound issues in compact shelving in the lower level
We continue to try to shrink the shelving in our periodicals reading room as we have opportunity to convert subscriptions from print to online, but at this time we still have around 400 current print subscriptions.

Steve

Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)

From: Teresa Imfeld
Reply-To: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 12:37 PM
To: "SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG"
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] New Periodicals Areas vs. Stacks

We, too, have these slanted shelves, but students never did seem to catch on to finding the past issues on the shelf underneath the current one.  We now keep four journals available on the display shelf (stacked one behind the other or slightly fanned out if we have the space).  Doing this we find the journals get much better usage.  We decided on four journals in order to cover one full year of a quarterly.

~Teresa

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Teresa Imfeld, MLIS
Serials, Acquisitions, & Cataloging Specialist
Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library
Warren Wilson College
828-771-3898



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