Thanks for your response Tom, but the original query was from Annette
Sullivan in Australia who submitted it to the Arlis-l list so I'll forward
your reply to the list so that she and others can read it there.
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>From: "Tom Jacoby" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 12:34:12 -0500
>Subject: Lending art periodicals query
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>Elizabeth: In quick response to your query regarding circulating art
>periodicals, let me briefly tell you what we do. First a little
>background: the University of Connecticut is mostly located at
>Storrs, in a rural part of the state. However, there are five regional
>campuses around the state (kind of dumb to my mind since you can
>traverse the state E-W in 3 1/2 hours and N-S in 2 hours but they
>were established when higher education was expanding in the fifites
>and sixties and now perpetuated mostly for political reasons!) mostly
>of the two-year variety (after which they transfer to Storrs, by the
>way many residents call us "Snores" because we are so remote and rural)
>though three are expanding to four year programs and some have
>graduate programs in the non-book-intensive programs such as Business
>and Education(!). Our professional schools are also in Hartford, the
>major population center for the state---the medical center
>which includes dentistry, the law school and the school of social
>work. The largest enrollment and the largest Art Dept is here at
>Storrs, ca. 16,000 students. The art faculty is about 28 (mostly
>studio with six art historians) here, whereas at the regional
>campuses, art programs typically have one or two art faculty.
>The Art & Design library has about 55,000 cataloged volumes, 7500
>uncataloged volumes, and about 17,000 bound serial volumes and
>subscribes to about 170 serial titles (& receives about that same
>number on exchange arrangements)
>
>The bulk of our Serials do not circulate and are indicated as non
>circulating in the electronic catalog. We do make exceptions for any
>valid borrower (Faculty, staff, students, are borrowers) if they have
>legitimate good reason, such as needing the volume for class
>presentation due to the quality of the illustrative material, for
>slide making or digitizing (mentioning potential copyright problems to the
>borrower when so doing) or for color copying since we do not have a
>color copier in the building. As the regional campuses expand their
>programs, I expect we will have more demand for this sort of request
>especially now that their catalogs are also going online so that we
>finally know what they own. We do transmit periodical articles via
>FAX to all regional campus libraries through our Interlibrary loan
>dept but since illustration quality is important we expect we will
>have to circulate periodicals more freely than we do now. We are on
>a NOTIS system and do most special loans on a manual basis. This is
>not altogether satisfactory but for now it works. It remains to be
>seen what effect the new electronicFULLTEXT journal subscriptions
>will have on our "periodicals do not circulate" policy again because
>of the importance of high quality images which are not usually that
>high a resolution in the demonstrations I've seen so far.
>
>There, I've only probably muddied the waters for you. Suffice to
>say, we are not sure what way we will go except to say that we
>probably need to be open to whatever happens. Incidently, the bulk
>of our periodicals are not classifed but rather arranged on the open
>periodical shelves by title (or main entry, which presents its own
>problems). Hope I've helped in some small way. Good Luck!
>
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>Thomas Jacoby
>Head, Art & Design Library, U-5AD
>University of Connecticut Library
>369 Fairfield Road
>Storrs, CT 06269-1005
>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
>Voice: (860)486-2787
>Fax: (860)486-3593
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Elizabeth Russell Email [log in to unmask]
Phone +64 4 8026241
Architecture Librarian Fax +64 4 8026240
Victoria University of Wellington
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PO Box 3438,Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
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