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Wednesday, February 4,1978
University Dallv Kansan
Open stacks ease library crunch
By KELLY SCOTT
The nigging process of filling out a call slip and waiting for a magazine or journal from the periodicals reading room of an agency or company, causes because of a new open stack policy.
More shelf space has been added to the periodicals room to hold both bound volumes and unbound issues at the same location
Although recent issues of 188 frequently used magazines are still retained behind the
and unbound issues to the present are
reading room under the
library of Copperhead.
A complete computer listing of the periodicals and the system they are cataloged under is available at the checkout desk.
THE WATSON READING room switched to the Library of Congress catalogue system in 1970, Miller said, but the entire collection hasn't been converted. All new acquisitions
Miller said he hoped to use the area where
room would eliminate some of the spread,
Couch said.
Miller said newer microfilm reading machines aren't as loud as the ones on in use in the microforma reading room. He used in the microforma reading room machines depended on the library's budget.
Five center and five east are the sure levels that used to house all unbound periodicals. When the move is completed, five center will be used to store samples, back issues of irregularly circulated publications and foreign-dited magazines.
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Magazine access made easier by putting more periodicals on open shelves.
crack-out desk, Sarah Couch, periodicals reading room supervisor, said yesterday that the new arrangement will increase accessibility to the library's collection.
"People will still rip off some, but it's a risk we will take," she said.
THE MAGAZINES kept behind the desk that require the regular check-out procedure are those that are most heavily damaged and most frequently stolen. Couch said.
Kent Miller, serials librarian, said the decision to open most of the periodicals stacks made better use of the stack area where the magazines were formerly stored.
"It's freeing the stacks for 60,000 more books." Miller said.
The periodicals room may seem more cramped than it was before the additional shelves were installed, he said, but there are still 284 desk and table spaces.
IN THE MIDDLE of last semester, a turnstile was installed immediately inside the periodicals room door. People are always seen in the turnstile at the turnstile and exit through the lane closest to the check-out desk, which was moved in front of the door. Miller said people leaving the room had to pass the desk which made it easier to take magazines from the reading room.
The latest issues of the 188 periodicals that are kept behind the desk are still available.
mounted on the wall opposite the new desk.
On the right side of the periodicals room are magazines catalogued according to the Dewey decimal system. Couch said. In the reading room's southern corner, the bureau is at the rear of the Congress system. There are also three shelves near the old check-out desk that have uncatalogued materials.
Bound volumes dated before 1960 are kept in the stacks under their Dewey system. The volumes dated after 1960 are stored in a separate
the old check-out desk was as a microfilm
reading area,
Twelve of the most heavily used periodicals would then be kept on microfilm and in an easily accessible part of the library, Miller said.
Right now people must go to four different places in Watson to find the complete set of Time magazines. The bound volumes are in either the reading room or the stacks, and the albums are in the microform reading room or the current issues are kept behind the desk.
THE MICROFILM area in the reading
The fate of these odd periodicals will vary. Since the library deals in long, complete runs of periodicals, the value of odd, largely unused ones is small. They could be thrown out or sent to other libraries, he said.
COUCH SAID the few reactions she had heard to the new system were favorable and came mainly from faculty and graduate students who new undergraduates had been in to see it.
Miller said the decision to open the periodicals room had been reached jointly by Robert Malminkowsky, assistant director of the library, and himself.
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Couch said more workers might be needed to make sure issues of magazines are noticed.
"Maintaining the shelves will be more important than ever," she said. "We'll have to check the shelves more often for misshelved items."
Even though the new system is more complex, said she, worries about maintaining it.
MILLER SAID the old way of handling the checking out of periodicals was an older tradition. The problem of understaffing. A library worker could only help one person at a time, he said, so others in line had to wait. Many of the staff were unable with the new accessibility to the periodicals.
Couch said it would be the middle of the semester before the library could tell whether students were walking away with more magazines.
THE LIBRARY will pull more tides
inside the desk to the old check-out
saves.
The circulation policy of the periodicals room hasn't changed. The magazines kept behind the periodicals desk can't be accessed by anyone except to room use during the open hours of the library but Couch said she does allow exceptions in special cases.
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