Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog
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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Sprache: | en |
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| author | Kieft, Robert |
| author_facet | Kieft, Robert Kieft, Robert |
| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog Kieft, Robert Libraries Library Services Space Utilization Storage Printed Materials Books Partnerships in Education Higher Education Online Catalogs Most campuses have no real estate to spare for the purpose of housing yet more printed books in their general libraries. Some solutions to this problem entails putting lesser printed materials in less-costly storage facilities; or engaging in cooperative archiving agreements that retain one copy of a title in one of the partner's active stacks so that the other partners may divest of their copy. However, many library users, like bookstore customers, highly value the practice of shelf browsing. In this article, the author presents several strategies that libraries can adapt to afford users the advantages of browsing for printed materials and at the same time manage space for collection growth. He also presents how Tri-College Library Consortium, a twenty-year partnership of Bryn Mawr, Haverford collaborated with Swarthmore Colleges to solve their problem with distributions of their collection. (Contains 2 notes.) |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| id | eric_EJ745824 |
| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2006 |
| record_format | eric |
| spellingShingle | Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog Kieft, Robert Libraries Library Services Space Utilization Storage Printed Materials Books Partnerships in Education Higher Education Online Catalogs Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog Kieft, Robert Libraries Library Services Space Utilization Storage Printed Materials Books Partnerships in Education Higher Education Online Catalogs Most campuses have no real estate to spare for the purpose of housing yet more printed books in their general libraries. Some solutions to this problem entails putting lesser printed materials in less-costly storage facilities; or engaging in cooperative archiving agreements that retain one copy of a title in one of the partner's active stacks so that the other partners may divest of their copy. However, many library users, like bookstore customers, highly value the practice of shelf browsing. In this article, the author presents several strategies that libraries can adapt to afford users the advantages of browsing for printed materials and at the same time manage space for collection growth. He also presents how Tri-College Library Consortium, a twenty-year partnership of Bryn Mawr, Haverford collaborated with Swarthmore Colleges to solve their problem with distributions of their collection. (Contains 2 notes.) |
| title | Browsing Library Collections: From the Shelf to the Online Catalog |
| topic | Libraries Library Services Space Utilization Storage Printed Materials Books Partnerships in Education Higher Education Online Catalogs |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ745824 |