1. We have a section for the latest isues of popular and heavily used periodicals, the periodicals browsing section. The browsing section also includes newspapers, and is located between the main peridicals section and the leisure reading section, bridging the two. It is fairly heavily used, and we have a comfortable reading section adjacent. The browsing area includes only the most recent edition of general and popular titles, multi-disciplinary titles, more frequently published titles, etc. Shelved alphabetically by title, not by call number. The Advocate, American Heritage, Atlantic, Audubon, Barrons, Booklist, Business Week... you get the idea. They are displayed with the cover facing out on display style shelves. The catalog shows a separate location note, MOST RECENT ISSUE IN BROWSING PERIODICALS. 2. During physical processing (by student assistants) browsing issues are marked so that student shelvers recognize them and shelve them correctly in the browsing area. A list of the periodical titles held in the browsing area is always kept on the desk of the physical processing area, and it has never been a problem to ensure that titles go to the correct location initially. When the next edition arrives, it is marked for the browsing area, the prior issue is moved to the main peridical area, and the browsing mark is removed from this issue. 3. Titles in the browsing periodicals area are also on a fast-track for check-in and processing, we try to get them out quickly. 4. All other new issues of new periodicals are shelved in the main periodicals area, along with all issues and volumes of the same title. Vol 27 no.1 follows vol. 26, etc. All but the most recent issue of the populsr/browsing area titles are also in the main periodicals area. 5. Retention- if held in JSTOR, Project Muse, ACS, or another electronic format with perpetual access and archiving rights guaranteed, we toss them, usually after five years plus current year (JSTOR moving wall). In cases where we get micro I theoretically toss those after the micro is received, but everyone hates actually using micro, so I have a tendency to keep the print of those titles that are actually being used, because it is so much simpler for students to use and copy print than micro. If a title is published frequently, so that back issues mount up and take up space, I will retain only two or three years plus current. I don't bind any JSTOR or other archived periodicals. 6. With a few exceptions, I do not toss print if it is only held in an aggregator, such as ProQuest, Wilson, Lexis, etc. 7. We security strip all inssues, and we allow them to go to any floor, and frankly I am not sure how we could enforce any restriction in our library. We also check out journal issues to faculty and some research staff, generally for 24 hours-- we have generic dummy item records with barcodes for checking out journals, we enter the specifics to the record at check-out, and attach the bar code to the issue temporarily. (The bar code is either on a manila envelope, into which we place the periodical, or a book mark that is attached to the issue). We do not advertise our policy of checking out periodicals, although it is commonly known among faculty and certain research units that are heavy users. 8. It is important to have a copy machine with attached copyright warning adjacent to the periodicals section. If it is possible to enter departmental copy codes into this copier (i.e. the english dept. copy code, etc.)for billing, it will eliminate much of the need for check out. Patricia Pettijohn Head, Collection & Technical Services Nelson Poynter Memorial Library University of South Florida St. Petersburg 140 7th Ave. South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 727-553-4407 ppettijohn@nelson.usf.edu " I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself: what a wonderful world. " Louis Armstrong -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Hemhauser Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:56 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] questions regarding open current periodical stacks We have always had closed current periodical stacks and are planning to move to open stacks. I would like to get some idea of how other academic libraries arrange their current periodicals in open stacks. This listserv seems the ideal way to gather that info from many libraries. 1. Do you keep your current periodicals in a separate place from your bound periodicals? All current periodicals together? Or do you shelve them mixed in with the bound volumes? 2. Approximately how many subscriptions to print journals and magazines do you have? 3. Do you eventually bind most of them or toos them? 4. How do you shelve/display the current issues before they've been bound? (We currently are using hanging folders for the closed stacks. I don't think they will work well in open stacks.) 5. Do you restrict the use of the current periodicals to a floor or room? Or can they be taken anywhere in the library? 6. Do you security strip all issues, most issues, random issues, weighted towards titles that more often disappear? Thank you for your replies. Mark Hemhauser American University Library--Serials & E-Resources Washington, DC 20016
