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Greetings friends, Regarding the bound library catalogs. Some of you may remember brief discussions on this topic in the RISS group at previous ARLIS conferences. It was proposed that RISS produce an annotated document on these sets, recon issues, etc., but the project was never taken up. Perhaps we should revisit this at the RISS meeting in Houston? Not sure what purpose a separate program session would serve. Due to space issues in our Open Shelf collection (our ready reference collection in the Libraries' Reading Room) we recently moved a significant number of these bound sets to an off site storage location (78 total boxes). In preparation for this move Kathleen Lonbom, a library intern, surveyed the material and began contacting the parent libraries to establish the status of recon projects. Other library staff continued Kathleen's project. The final decision to relocate material was based on the following criteria, in the following order: 1) Does the set contain unique material that is not available via any other source? 2) How complete has the parent library's recon effort been to date, and what is the status of any continuing recon effort? 3) What is the likelihood that RLIN, WorldCat, or some other resource will provide bibliographic access to the material covered in the bound catalog? 4) Is the catalog actually used? As we established a list of candidates for removal, with an emphasis on criteria 1 & 2, we discovered that we still needed to find additional shelf inches. At this point we made (hopefully) reasonable assessments regarding criteria 3 & 4 to enlarge the pool of candidates for relocation. To my knowledge none of the removed catalogs have since been required, and our Open Shelf collection has some much needed room to expand. With biographical sets such as the AKL growing over time, the arrival of Oxford's new DNB, which requires twice the shelving space as the previous edition, and the usual growth associated with our Open Shelf collection, which includes all AIC publications, we moved some bound catalogs off site that in a more perfect world (with more shelf space) we might have kept locally available. Regards to all, Peter Blank -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter P. Blank Phone: (312) 443-3665 Head, Reader Services FAX: 312.443.0964 Ryerson & Burnham Libraries [log in to unmask] Art Institute of Chicago 111 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603 __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]