Thanks to all you responded to my request for input on inter-filing
periodicals with the main collection. It was extremely informative and
helped us convince our director to at least consider the repercussions more
deeply. He isn’t completely convinced we shouldn’t do it but
has acknowledged that it won’t provide the results he is looking for.
In summary; most people thought it was a bad idea (little to
no return for a HUGE investment); a few had just done the reverse and removed
the periodicals from main in order to free up valuable shelf space; and very
few said they did it and were happy.
We already have the periodicals classified using LC, so that
was helpful in convincing the director that we can help educate the students that
they can “virtually” browse the catalog by call #, which we will
then supplement by putting dummy boxes in the main collection for the appropriate
periodical title for when they are retrieving the books.
Thanks to everyone for all your insight – I learn so
much by being on this list!
Nancy A. Bennett
Electronic Resources & Systems
Librarian
Carroll University Library
100 N. East Ave.
Waukesha, WI 53186
262-650-4886