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Subject: Re: Periodicals shelving in public libraries... -- Carol Morse
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:29:25 -0900
From: Phylis Slone <fnpds@AURORA.UAF.EDU>

We have keep all the titles together, but we have what we call the
"dirty dozen" or "top twelve".  We just have a separate display where
the currents are filed for the titles we feel are the dozen most
popular.  They are face out so everyone can see the covers, instead of
hanging in files or sitting on a shelf.

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> Subject: Re: Periodicals shelving in public libraries... --
>          BuddyPennington
>    Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:45:03 -0800
>    From: Carol Morse <MorsCa@WWC.EDU>
>
>  I would definitely keep them all together for the reasons you mentioned
> (i.e. confusion).Carol
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Periodicals shelving in public libraries...
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:16:37 -0600
> From: "MD_Buddy (Buddy Pennington)" <MD_Buddy@KCLIBRARY.ORG>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We currently have our 980 periodicals in closed stacks, but we are
> moving
> into a new building that will allow for the periodicals to be in open
> stacks.  The question has come up whether we should pull out the popular
>
> titles and separate them from the other periodicals.  This would result
> in
> three periodical collections:  the newspapers, the popular periodicals,
> and
> the non-popular periodicals.  All would be arranged in alphabetical
> order by
> title.
>
> I am leery of doing it this way for several reasons.  It creates more
> work
> for staff and customers end up looking in two places for the periodicals
>
> they want.  You also have to deal with signage directing customers to
> the
> popular periodicals shelf, not to mention determining what exactly is a
> popular title (and trying to make that consistent with what the public
> considers popular!).  My thinking is that it would be easier on both
> staff
> and customers if the periodicals were all in one section, arranged
> alphabetically, and the newspapers were in a different section, also
> arranged alphabetically.
>
> Has anyone out there tried the "popular periodical" approach?  Or does
> anyone have any thoughts on the matter I can share with our library
> planning
> committee?
>
> Buddy Pennington
> Document Delivery Librarian
> Kansas City Public Library
> md_buddy@kclibrary.org
> 816-701-3552
>