Compact Shelving: yea or nay.

     The BYU library is expanding and will be
centralizing all bound and unbound periodicals into a
large(!) room in the new addition.  This room will be on
the second level, and this question has arisen during the
planning stages; do we want to reinforce the floor during
the initial construction to accommodate the extra weight
of compact shelving, should we find the need for CS down
the road.  Of course this would raise the initial costs,
but it would be much cheeper than a retro-fit later.  I
was wondering how many of my fellow netters have
experience with compact shelving and would be willing to
share their experiences.

     Question 2.  If you have a central periodicals area
do you keep the bound and unbound issues together in a
call number or alphabetical sequence, or do you have all
unbound materials separate from the bound issues?  Do any
of my serials colleagues have experience with shelving
bound and unbound serials together in a central
periodicals location?

     Please respond to me directly.  Thanks.

Mike Beier
Mike_Beier@byu.edu
Provo, Utah