Dear Colleagues,
What is the collected wisdom about how to shelve periodicals whose titles
have changed mid-stream? Examples are:
Smithsonian Studies in American Art/American Art
Black Art/International Review of African American Art
Journal of Jewish Art/Jewish Art
Craft Horizons/American Craft (this one changed mid-volume!)
Early American Antiques/American Antiques/American Art & Antiques/Art
& Antiques
Here in Toledo, we have done it both ways; sometimes continuing with the
serial on the same shelf and then putting a see-note on the shelf where the new
title would have gone, other times splitting the journal. There are
appropriate notes made in the title's record.
As we shift and weed the collection, trying to find space, this question
has come up again.
Is there a standard for practice, or is everyone in the same quandary as we
are here in Toledo? I'd like to do one thing or the other, but there are
reasons for each.
Thanks for any answers.
Anne Morris
Anne O. Morris
Head Librarian
Toledo Museum of Art
Box
1013
Toledo, OH 43697