[DCRM-L] Criteria for identifying books needing flat shelving

[Oksana K. Linda]

Hello:

Clements Library's measurements for oversize items shelved flat:
over 40 cm. high
over 30 cm. wide.

In some cases we flat shelve items that are smaller.

/Oksana.
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Oksana Katerine Linda
Rare Book Cataloger
University of Michigan
William L. Clements Library
909 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190



--On Monday, June 08, 2009 1:19 PM -0400 "Young, Stephen" 
<stephen.young at yale.edu> wrote:

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> At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, "Folios" as defined by
> size and not by format are given flat shelving. The measurements are:
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> over 37 cm. high
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> over 31 cm. wide
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> Stephen R. Young
> Rare Book Team Leader
> Catalog and Metadata Services
> Sterling Memorial Library
> Box 208240
> New Haven, CT 06520-8240
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> Tel.: 203-432-8385
> Fax: 203-432-7231
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> Email: stephen.young at yale.edu
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> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
> Behalf Of Kate Moriarty
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:31 PM
> To: DCRM Revision Group List
> Subject: [DCRM-L] Criteria for identifying books needing flat shelving
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> Hello, All,
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> We are looking at reconfiguring our rare book stacks and are starting to
> address how we shelve very large pre-1820 volumes. We shelve our pre-1820
> volumes according to format and currently have three areas: 1) 12mos and
> smaller, 2) 4tos and 8vos, and 3) folios. We're going to have to create a
> fourth area for volumes that are large enough to require flat shelving.
> Is there a measurement cut-off point that people use to identify books
> requiring flat shelves? A height at which books really should not be
> shelved vertically? We're considering going with flat shelving for
> anything that is 44 cm. or larger. Of course, if a book is shorter than
> that but in bad condition we'll also consider flat shelving.
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Kate
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