Our director got compact shelving for part of our bound periodicals.  He actually found used shelving which cost 30,000.00.  He said that new shelving would have been 300,000.00.  We like it very much, although the patrons can't seem to figure it out so we usually have to help them.

Christina McCawley
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
cmccawley@wcupa.edu
610-436-2656

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Pope
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 4:35 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Compact Shelving

Hello, everyone.  We are planning on installing compact shelving in our
bound periodicals stacks in the next few years.  Our dean visited
another college in our state where the periodicals on microfilm were
shelved on the same compact shelving as the bound periodicals.  Have any
of you ever seen this kind of compact shelving or used it?  If so, do
you know of a vendor or manufacturer?  If you also having any
information on how useful this kind of shelving is, what you do/don't
like about it, pricing, etc., that would also be helpful.

I do not wish to hear from vendors.

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,
--
Barbara M. Pope, MALS
Periodicals/Reference Librarian
Axe Library
Pittsburg State University
1701 S. Broadway
Pittsburg KS 66762
620-235-4884
bpope@pittstate.edu

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