Mr. Murden,  We retain most of our newspaper titles until the hardcopy is
replaced by microform.  In order to keep them organized, easy to access
and easy to shelve we keep them on open shelving in piles by date.  Each
pile generally holds 1 week of a title.  Then each Monday we "shift
newspapers"-this means that all those on the "week 16" pile are recycled,
those on the "week 15" pile are moved to "week 16", "week 14" to "week
15", etc.  We have found this makes it much easier for patrons to find
the date they are looking for and easier for shelving purposes too.
Since the piles are gone through once a week (at which time we put each
issue in order, restaple it if nec., and make sure that all dates are in
the proper pile) each pile usually has the correct issues in it.  Hope
this info. helps.  Gretchen Olson, Serials Specialist, Lewis & Clark
College, Ptld, OR.

On Tue, 22 Feb 1994, Steve Murden wrote:

> We have what I know is a common problem with our unfilmed
> newspapers.  They reside on open shelving in a public access area,
> until the limited-retention titles are discarded (anywhere from
> three to six months) or their replacements are received on
> microfilm.  Has anyone hit upon a brilliant solution for keeping
> them in some semblance of order?  Individual hanging files are not
> a possibility (financial and space constraints).  Creative
> solutions welcome.  Please respond to me and I will summarize for
> the list.  Thanks.
>
> Steve Murden
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> smurden@ruby.vcu.edu
>