[CLClist] Integrating Reference Collection with Non-Fiction??Thoughts...

[Teri Padua]

That's really what I've done. Most of the ready reference has stayed in a
separate area, but the vast majority of my reference has been interfiled.
I'm actually seeing it being used this year! Yea! I've also changed the
checkout period on the Circulating Reference that is interfiled to one week,
as opposed to the three week checkout that our circulating collection has.
It is working for us, and has opened up some floor space for conversation
areas and study carrels.

Teri Padua

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Roselle Weiner <Roselle.Weiner at asd-1817.org>
wrote:

> I would like to share thoughts about this topic, too.  Could we continue
> to discuss openly on the list?
>
> My first thought was wow! neat idea.  Then, I thought about instances
> where I would want to use an almanac , for example.  Suppose I was seeking
> the population of CT...I would probably use the almanac for that...but if
> the almanac was kept with the CT books, then I would not be able to find
> similar information for MA and CA etc.
>
> So with that in mind, I wonder if integrating really general reference
> works is such a good idea!  It sounds to me more like making reference
> collections into "Ready Reference" and eliminating other, more specific
> works like encyclopedia of science would be in the 500s instead of in the
> reference collection.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
>
> Roselle Weiner
> Coordinator of Library and LRC Services
> American School for the Deaf
> 139 North Main Street
> West Hartford, CT 06107
> 860-570-2275 tt or relay
>
> >>> On 4/11/2008 at 11:49 AM, in message <
> 323B38CAFF685742834A52A167FC45F0021C015A at SYSPYRITE1.sys.commnet.edu>,
> "Hansen, Joy I" <JHansen at mxcc.commnet.edu> wrote:
> HI all,
> I would also like to be in on this discussion so if you could copy me in
> as well to the response(s), I would appreciate it!
>
> Best,
>
> Joy Hansen
> Librarian, Jean Burr Smith Library
> Middlesex Community College
> 100 Training Hill Road
> Middletown, CT  06457
> 860-343-5832
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> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:47 AM
> To: clclist at ctlibrarians.org; conntech at mylist.net
> Subject: [CLClist] Integrating Reference Collection with
> Non-Fiction??Thoughts...
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Are there any public libraries in Connecticut that have shelved their
> Reference
>
> Collection among it's Non-Fiction Collection??
>
>
>
> If your library has done this, do you like it??
>
>
>
> How do your patrons like it???
>
>
>
> I know that one downside is that a patron may take over a intershelved
> reference
>
> book over to the circulation desk to check it out and then learn that it
> must stay
>
> in the library.  Result being a unhappy patron.
>
>
>
> We are in the thinking stages of this at the Whittemore Library and want
>
> to hear the pros and cons.
>
>
>
> Can anyone lead us to any recently published article(s) on this
> subject???
>
>
>
> Thanks..
>
>
>
> John W.
>
> Whittemore Library
>
> Naugatuck, CT
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Teri Padua, Media Director
Northwestern Regional Mid./High School
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