Ours are organized by LC classification.  The current issues are in the
reading room (generally the current year), and the past years are bound and
shelved in the stacks by their LC classification.  It does allow for
browsing by topic.  The problem is if we pick up or drop many, we have to
rearrange the shelves as the shelved are labeled.  We also have to print a
label with the classification information and put on the cover of the issue.
This is a little more work than just shelving by alpha.

Tracey Thompson
Acquisitions Librarian
New Mexico State University Library
MSC 3475 P.O. Box 30006
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006
(p) 575-646-8093
(f) 575-646-7477

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Wilma Dague
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:47 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] How do you arrange your periodicals?

We're under going some construction at our library, so I have the
opportunity to rethink the way our periodicals are presented. Previously
we've had them arranged in rough alphabetical order, but I was thinking of
organizing them by topic-except some topics might overlap. But then Bible
Today would be near Theology Today for example and it would seem to
facilitate browsing. How do you all organize your periodicals? What problems
have you encountered?

Best regards,

Wilma Weant Dague
Serials  Coordinator
Benedictine College Library
1020 North 2nd St.
Atchison, KS 66002

(913) 360-7610
wdague@benedictine.edu<mailto:wdague@benedictine.edu>