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Subject: Protection for medium rare" serials
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:51:17 -0500
From: Marjorie Wilhite <marjorie-wilhite@uiowa.edu>

The "Task Force on the Location of Materials Needing Special Protection"
at
the University of Iowa Libraries would greatly appreciate advice on
methods
other libraries have devised to protect serial volumes deemed to be
"medium
rare" but not eligible for assignment to the Special Collections
Department.

We are considering titles such as the early volumes of the Ladies Home
Journal  and  the  Saturday Evening Post;  film journals which contain
many
photographs of the stars; popular culture titles such as Heavy Metal,
Mad,
and Playboy.

We hope to design a better plan for certain serials now shelved with all
the other current issues and bound periodicals in our general
collection.
Playboy and the film journals are  assigned to the Reserve Reading Room.
However, Reserve has no photocopy machines within its confines and the
double doors to the room  are unsupervised and have no security devices.
Patrons are spposed to bring the Reserve materials to a service desk
near
the door and check them out.

If you send messages directly to me, I will summarize them and post them
to
the list.

Thank you.

Marjorie Wilhite
Team Leader, Serials Acquisitions
University of Iowa Libraries
Phone: 319 335-5896
Fax: 319 335-5900
Internet: marjorie-wilhite@uiowa.edu