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Good afternoon, Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the Shelf-tidying Survey that ran through July. There was a surprising amount of interest with 48 institutions responding. As expected, the answers showed a great deal of variety in current practice. I have uploaded a more detailed breakdown to the 'Files Area' of the LIS-LINK Home Page but have tried to summarise the key points below for those with a passing interest: Items in collection Total hours spent shelf-tidying the collection each week <100,000 items 19 100,000 - 200,000 items 18 200,000 - 300,000 items 66 300,000 - 400,000 items 25 400,000 - 500,000 items 77 500,000 - 600,000 items 48 700,000 - 800,000 items 75 >1,000,000 items 85 The answers from questions 4&5 were used to construct this table. The 8 libraries that do not shelf-tidy or shelf-tidy on an ad hoc basis were not included when calculating these averages. Because of this (and because of the amount of variation in the libraries that do shelf-tidy), the above figures may be potentially misleading - I would encourage anyone who wishes to benchmark against these to look at the more in depth spreadsheet in the Files Area: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/lis-link/Copy_of_Shelf-tidying_spreadsheet.xlsx The two most popular strategies for shelf-tidying were giving staff responsibility for a particular area (16 libraries) and instructing staff to move through the stacks sequentially until a full circuit is completed (14 libraries). Details of the other responses can be found in the corresponding document in the Files Area: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/lis-link/shelf-tidying_responses.docx I hope that is of some interest/use, it has been for us. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to send me an email. Again, thank you to everyone who participated. Best wishes, Antony ____________________________ Antony Groves Membership Supervisor University of Sussex Library BN1 9QL [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>