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Subject: Re: Title Changes and shelving -- Christina Liggins
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 09:49:07 -0600
From: Edith Pfeifer List <epl@prin.edu>

We decided to put each title in its own spot in the alphabet.  We found
people getting lost (especially ILL) if we shelved them differently. (We
do
put a shelf label on continued by or previously.)

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Marshall Brooks Library
Principia College
Elsah, IL 62028-9799

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Subject: Re: Title Changes and shelving -- Christina Liggins
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:05:42 -0600
From: Peter Picerno <ppicerno@choctaw.astate.edu>

Our journals are shelved as yours are, in alphabetical order. When we
have a
situation of either a title change or a subscription which has been
terminated, we apply a sticker/label to the spine of the last bound
volume
which indicates the situation ... thus, we have stickers which read
"title
change" so that folks will, hopefully, know to look in the spot where
the
new title is shelved, and we have stickers which read "last received
issues"
indicating that we no longer subscribe to that journal. Hope this helps!

P Picerno

At 10:46 AM 2/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Title Changes and shelving
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:17:03 -0500
>From: Christina Liggins <cliggins@CHC.EDU>
>
>
>We are a medium-sized academic library and we shleve our journals in
>alphabetical order.  I have a very basic question that has probably been
>discussed on this list before, so forgive me for this, but:
>
>When a journal undergoes a title change, do patrons seem to find it
>easier
>to retrieve a title when the title is shelved WITH the current title, or
>shelved in its own alphabetically-correct spot?  For example, does
>shelving
>"Books Abroad" with its more current title "World Literature Today" make
>retrieval more difficult for the patron?  Does it make life more
>difficult
>for shelvers?  Have there been any studies in this area?
>
>Shelving old and new titles together, with directional (cross-reference)
>signage might be the way to go, however, that is alot of signage!  The
>journals holdings list would, of course, map out the title-change
>history
>of each journal.
>
>Thanks in advance to everyone for any input on this matter.
>
>Christina Liggins,
>Serials Librarian
>Chestnut Hill College
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>