[Genealib] re shelving periodicals

[Anne Gometz]

We have a smallish genealogy and local history collection in a separate 
room with open stacks.  Our periodicals have call numbers (some in the 
000s and some in the 929s), but a while back most were still shelved in 
alphabetical order in the back portion of the room.  Interfiling the 
whole room in one call number order has made life easier for the page 
doing the shelving and increased use of the journals.  Sooner or later 
it occurs to someone who's looked at all the books on a shelf that all 
those volumes of, for example, the journal of the North Carolina 
Genealogical Society sitting there next to the books might have 
something too.

As an added note, a while back we updated our library system and now we 
can discharge items to register in-house use.  So the page gathers up 
everything in the room and discharges before shelving.  I love having 
some real data on what titles are being used.

Anne Gometz
Gastonia, NC

"Mine and mine alone."