Hello
Here at the Robert Gordon University a new library is being built as part of our campus development programme (http://newrgulibrary.wordpress.com/).
The shelving within the new library will sit over 4 floors and there will be a mix of compact and open shelving on each floor. The ratio of compact to open shelves will be approx 60% compact shelving and 40% open shelving.
We have now reached the stage in our planning where we are considering the layout of stock on the shelves and the best way to arrange it for access and use.
We would greatly appreciate hearing about how other libraries, who have a mix of publically accessible compact and open shelving, have arranged their stock.
For example is the stock in a simple Dewey sequence, have you split the stock so different floors have been assigned to different subjects, have you put the most used material on the open shelves and the less used in the compact shelving or vice versa, have you arranged the journals in one location or housed them with their subjects, and so on?
We would also greatly appreciate hearing about how the decision to arrange the stock was made and if there are any changes you would make?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Yours sincerely
Victoria Farmer
Liaison Librarian
Georgina Scott Sutherland Library
Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen
AB10 7QE
Tel: 01224 263475
Mobile: 07872 419170
For the latest library news visit our blog: Library Matters<http://blogs.rgu.ac.uk/>
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