You probably meant 30 cm. = 12"

Ra Dajkovich-Graham
Services Specialist
Periodicals and Newspapers Centre
Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street,
Toronto, ON
M4W-2G8

Tel:416-393-7049  Fax:416393-7083
rdgraham@torontopubliclibrary.ca

>>> "Martha M. Davis" <davismar@LUTHER.EDU> 15/06/2011 12:09 pm >>>
Barbara:  If you are measuring by the Bindery ruler, 30" is the top for most
journals.  I just measured ECONOMIST and a few others, and they are all 30
by this measurement - SIGHT AND SOUND was a little bigger, but I think some
of the European ones are a little bigger.

Hope this helps...

MMD

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:45 AM, bpope <bpope@pittstate.edu> wrote:

> Hello, everyone out there in Serials-land.
>
> We are looking at getting compact shelving soon.  I have been asked to find
> out how much of our bound periodicals area is considered oversize, as it may
> have be shelved separate from compact shelving.  What is considered oversize
> with bound volumes?  A cataloger in our tech services said anything over 30
> cm (11.8 inches).  By that definition, according to my student employee,
> Economist magazine is oversize, which does not seem right to me.  Anyone
> have any ideas?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Barbara M. Pope, MALS
>
> Periodicals/Reference Librarian
>
> Axe Library
>
> Pittsubrg State University
>
> 1701 S. Broadway
>
> Pittsburg KS  66762
>
> 620-235-4884
>
> bpope@pittstate.edu
>

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