VCU Libraries does not shelve any materials spine up or down. If the
item does not fit on the shelf, it is routed by shelving staff to
Cataloging where it is reclassed for the Oversize area. Preservation
then relabels the item and it is then shelved in Oversize. We have not
had to expand the Oversize areas that were established in 1990. Our
collection size is just under 2 million.
We do not make a distinction between "medium oversize" and "oversize".
It's either too tall for the shelf or it's not. We do have an
"Oversize 2" area in the Oversize shelving where supersize items are
shelved flat.
Patricia
Cathleen Mook wrote:
All,
For
decades, UF has shelved volumes that are too tall to stand up on their
individual shelves spine up. (If the volume is really tall, we do have
an oversize area, I am talking about medium tall things...) I am
trying to get this practice changed but the thinking that it is too
hard and it takes too much time for the shelvers to do their job when
the call number label is pointing down and not up is very ingrained
here. May I ask if anyone on the list has had success changing their
local spine up shelving policy to a spine down shelving policy and if
so, would they be willing to give me some specific advice? I know it
is going to be a matter of 'educate, educate, educate' but I seem to be
hitting some road blocks...
Thanks,
Cathy
Cathleen L. Mook
Head, Preservation
University of Florida
Box 117007
Gainesville, FL 32611
(voice) 352-392-6962
(fax) 352-392-6597
--
Patricia Palmer Selinger
Head, Preservation Department
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
patricia.selinger@xxxxxxx
(ph) 804.828.1096
(fax) 804.828.0151
|