I am at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library in
Memphis.  They were circulating the current journals to
faculty when I came here in 1966.  It seems we put them on the
current shelf for one week and then circulated them to
different departments from lists they provided.  It was a
pain.  We put them out to be picked up on a Monday afternoon
or Tuesday a.m. and they were supposed to return them on
Friday.  Most of the time we had to call to get them back.  It
took some journals a month to make the rounds.  We were a lot
smaller then.  I can't imagine doing it in a larger
university.  One staff member handled this on those days but
it began to take two.  We celebrated when we stopped this
service and the complainers seemed to adapt.

Anne C. Bunting
Collection Management Librarian
abunting@utmem1.utmem.edu