Dear Katherine,
Shelving by size only gives you more room if you shelve the most
common size as precise as possible. You mention that you have so
many quartos, and that will be the case for most ibraries. e at the
Stedelijk Museum found that books ranging from 22 to 28 cm are the
most common, and we apply rather precise format shelving for these
categories, like 22, 24, 26 and 28 cm shelves.
For a retroporject in which we recatalogued 25.000 books, we won
back lots of space. From 5 shelves to 7 or 8 shelves per stack.
greetings
michiel Nijhoff
Librarian Stedelijk Museum
On 18 Jan 2005 at 17:10, Katherine Cowan wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:10:54 -0500
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] shelving books by size?
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> Jan. 18, 2005
>
> Dear list,
> We are looking for input on practices of shelving books by size.
>
> We have Stacks (less than 12 in. tall) and Quartos (roughly 12-15 in. tall)
> -- shelved separately on opposite sides of the library (I use inches rather
> than centimeters to describe this to the students).
>
> Anticipating the opportunity to install all new shelving, we are wondering
> whether some libraries integrate these sizes, and what advantages they find
> in that arrangement.
>
> I've worked in libraries where the Quartos are housed on shelves at the end
> of each row, but we have so many Quartos that this would probably not work
> for us. I've also seen the different sizes on separate floors of a smaller
> library. I understand that the shelving space is more efficiently used with
> separate shelving by size, and it makes sense - it also seems healthier for
> the books.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Kathy Cowan
> Senior Reference Librarian, Decker Library
> Maryland Institute College of Art
> (410) 225-2714
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