Hi Anne.
All of our collection circulates, except for the
catalogue raisonnes and oversized (which do circulate within CBB, but not ILL).
I suspect we do little recalling, except for
reserves books which typically are not the above types of materials.
But, I would agree this will not solve your space
problem. Doesn't Bowdoin have a storage facility?
Margaret Ericson
At 02:03 PM 9/2/2008, Anne Haas wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>SO, here I am in a really tiny, overcrowded,
>busting at the seams art library. We have always
>been a non-circulating collection,of about
>15,000 vols. I keep removing stuff so we can
>shelve new stuff. I am at the breaking
>point. We don’t have a ‘real’ circulation
>deskmy desk, which is all I have, is the entry
>point, or rather the obvious ‘person’ sitting on
>the floor. There is no door into the library-we
>are part of an open plan second floor.
>
>Some of the art history faculty seem to be of a
>mind that circulating the collection will solve
>the space issue(it would be nice, but it will
>not work, as you no doubt know, since we can’t
>dictate a nice even amount of check out..i’ll be
>shifting til i die)_ and most of what is here,
>is exhibition catalogues, or larger format items
>with a lot of illustration. If something is
>predominantly text, and needs to be checked out
>for reading, I house it at the Main Library,
>where it is in a circulating collection.
>
>My questions are these: How many of you have
>parts of your collections that do not circulate?
>How do the large format bindings hold up? How
>much extra recalling are you doing, so that multiple people can look at images?
>
>Any information, related to my questions or not,
>will be hugely appreciated. The Meeting is on Friday, and I need back up!!!!!
>
>Thanks,
>Anne
>
>Anne B. Haas
>Art Librarian
>Bowdoin College
>9300 College Station
>Brunswick, Maine 04011
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