We are a small college library.  We have approx. 700 current
subscriptions.  They are shelved alphabetically at the rear of the main
floor.  Once bound they are moved to the basement.  We have a small subset
of what we consider general interest titles that are shelved by title in
our lounge area at the front of the library.  There are 30 titles shelved
there and we keep only the most current issue on that shelf in plastic
covers.  When a more recent issue arrives the old issue gets moved to the
back with the rest of the current issues.

Laura

At 09:05 AM 6/9/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: hobbsh [mailto:hobbsh@NSUOK.EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:43 PM
>Subject: Bounced question
>
>
>RE: Browsing or Current periodical collections
>
>If you have a browsing or current periodical display area where you
>place a subset of your subscriptions, I have 3 questions to ask.  We are
>interested in re-arranging our browsing collection and wondered how
>other libraries do it.  Thanks for your input.
>
>1.  Is the collection arranged by:   Title
>                                                      Call number
>                                                     Other, please describe
>
>2.  Is the library:   Public
>                             College/University
>                             School
>                             Special
>
>3.   Approximately how many titles are in the browsing collection
>
>--
>Harriett Hobbs                                918 456 5511 x3285
>Acquisitions Librarian                        918 457 2197 (fax)
>John Vaughan Library                          hobbsh@nsuok.edu
>Northeastern St University
>711 N Grand Ave
>Tahlequah    OK   74464

Laura Vogler, Serials Dept.
Wabash College Lilly Library
301 W Wabash Ave, PO Box 352
Crawfordsville IN  47933