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Hello list, I am forwarding a query on behalf of a non-art librarian colleague. If you subscribe to McSweeney's Quarterly and make it generally available to your users, could you please respond? > Our library was recently gifted a collection of the periodical McSweeneys > and we are wondering how to properly shelve this periodical. In case you > aren't familiar with this title, McSweeneys is an artistic literary journal > that often has big foldout sections, little extra parts, and usually isn't > even in book or journal format. I was just looking at one edition that is a > square cardboard box filled with individual booklets, papers and even a > rolled up scroll! Each edition is basically it's own art object. Ideally, > we would love to have these out on open shelves with the other print > periodicals (non-circulating, of course), but I'm worried about the "extra > bits" going missing. Also, I don't really want to make Tech Services have > to tattle tape a million little pieces for each edition. > > You may not have a subscription to this title, but I'm sure you must have > similiar items in your collection. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on > how we can best catalog and prep these for open shelves? I'm wondering if > we shouldn't catalog each edition individually to account for each part, > considering every edition is so unique. Or should I give it up and just add > them to our archive so they are safe? > Sarah Carter Instruction and Research Services Librarian Verman Kimbrough Memorial Library Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 941 359.7671 www.ringling.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.libraryvoices.wordpress.com Twitter <http://twitter.com/RinglingLibrary>: @RinglingLibrary Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarasota-FL/Kimbrough-Library-at-Ringling-College-of-Art-Design/26911107168>: Kimbrough Library Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/30132888@N05/>: Kimbrough Library YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/RinglingLibrary>: RinglingLibrary Delicious <http://delicious.com/RCAD_Library>: RCAD_Library ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~