If it makes you and Shirley Rais feel any better, our library used to file all association journals and proceedings under the association name. So JAMA was neither under J A nor JA... - it was under A for "American Medical Association, Journal" !

(This decision was before my time, but no one left when I arrived was willing to defend it.)

I was finally able to fix this when we did a massive print-to-online weed-and-shift, but all of the bound volumes had the spines printed that way, so we've had to add little stickers with "Journal of the " in front of the association names so they get reshelved correctly!

We now are letter-by-letter so JAMA comes right before Jamboree (or would if we had that).

Melissa Belvadi

UPEI

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Goodwin, Bethany <0000000a9425f8ae-dmarc-request@listserv.nasig.org> wrote:

Greetings,

We order our print journals alphabetically word by word. I'm new enough to librarianship that I only recently discovered there was a term for it (http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet27). When I first started working with serials I was taught to put the journal titles with acronyms at the beginning of the letter and never thought much about it until one of our staff working with students complained they couldn't find a journal (AETEI Journal). I was then asked if we could reshelve them alphabetically "like people would think."

For those libraries who still own print journals and file alphabetically, do you file word by word (acronyms to the front) or letter by letter?

Thanks!
Bethany

Bethany Goodwin
Electronic Resources Supervisor
Rolfing Memorial Library | Trinity International University
2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
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