On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 Kathy_Schmidt@UWLAX.EDU wrote:

> .....  We recently installed compact shelving and
> have moved a fairly large number of inactive periodicals to the area.
> Although the titles are inactive they are still used, so now we are trying
> to think of the most inexpensive and least labor intensive method of
> labelling the volumes so they will be returned to compact shelving and not
> the bound stacks.  The idea of putting a call number type label with a cover
> protector on each one of these volumes makes us shudder.  Does anyone have a
> great solution that you have been using and would recommend to us?  Thanks
> in advance--

Kathy,
Here, at the Sage Colleges Troy Campus Library, we have an off-site
storage area, which is accessible to our student shelvers.  We store
little used periodicals there. In order to distinguish them from the
regular collection and thus prevent them from getting shelved with the
latter, we used a paint pen in a very bright green color and just made a
horizontal slash across the top of each journal.  Once you have your
journals shelved you can just take the pen, move across the row and make one
continuous slash and voila! all the journals are marked in one fell swoop.
 Good luck.
 Diana Marshall
 Serials Supervisor,
 The Sage Colleges Libraries
 marshd@SAGE.EDU