My stacks were pretty consistently three feet long, except for a section of my easy reader collection, which was an irregularly-sized shelf. Best way to Re-Shelving books faster. This brought about a flurry of requests from many people. I was also interested in making sure we had enough wiggle room to allow the pages to actually shelve items without jamming. It really is basic math of books per foot multiplied by number of feet of shelving. If you are going to link to this wiki please use the following URL: Logo designed by Christopher Rios and Zandra Vlahakis... Just create an account to start adding and editing content on the wiki. I already knew we were over capacity by just looking. Cramped and packed shelving is my personal definition of hell. See more ideas about Shelving, Library shelves, Library. Holly’s Shelf Balancing articles are an interesting way to examine allocation of collection space. If you have any technical questions about the wiki, please contact its creator, Meredith Farkas. Please visit the Wikipedia Style Guide for instructions on how to format text in the wiki. It was time to get down and dirty and determine maximum capacity for each shelf and thereby the entire library. (For my project I did not count the oversized books since we didn’t have very many. Depending on their height, your stacks might have between 3-8 shelves per stack. Archived. benchmark shelving projects at other libraries. 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Trying to make one average of all the books in all the sections of the library would be pointless, so calculate specific averages for each shelving range, collection, or item type – whatever works best in your particular setup. * As we planned this project, some of these practices became part of our new approach to shelving. Obviously, a picture book takes up less space on a shelf than a big fat novel or reference book. %PDF-1.3 Again, my library is small enough that I could come up with an average book size for each collection. This wiki is not run by any commercial entity and does not represent any commercial interests. Then calculate the average for DVDs, audio books, paperbacks, etc. I’d love to hear more about his formula, can you shoot me some details? x��]َɕ}�_��&v:�e���m�0~.��T���vQ���'IfF$��!#ɤ RDA itself continues to evolve with updates appearing a couple times a year. Questions about specific content in the wiki should be directed to that individual author. I knew I subscribed to this blog for a reason! Close. Now you can include length: 36 shelves X 3 feet each = 108 feet of shelving. If you're building a new library or upgrading an existing library, talk to IntraSpace about our customised library storage systems, shelving & furniture. Please add your profile to the Wiki User List so we can all get to know each other! If you've done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you don’t use the bottom or top shelves because of difficulty reaching, leave them out of the total (unless that shelf space could be used in the future). 2�oZ�;����JO�����!1��M�h�jG�O����=?��Q(�����T This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. Email the website. For example, if you want to go into depth with a "success story" about gaming, you can create another page for the details on the success story and just put a little teaser or title on the gaming page (with a link). My stacks were irregular in number of shelves, but consistently 3 feet long. If you want to see recent changes made to the wiki, visit Recent Changes. For my purposes, I used about a ¼ inch as an average width for a picture book and 1 inch for the average fiction/nonfiction book. I have been swamped with my day job, and I have been meaning to write up my process for a while now. Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Try this fix. For those wishing to use content in the wiki, the wiki itself (and all the content contained herein) is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. The reality is that I had little scraps of paper with a few notes and a half-baked spreadsheet estimating the linear feet of available shelving in my library. }�a���-���+>�����+�}�K�ć�{fO���=��������`F��������IT`F�����5T���y��6N����!NZ0oNM��K�Ĩq��+�l�ク�j�i�6�g|��rl>퐛b�!�� I have a caveat: my project focused on library and collection capacity and was only an ESTIMATE. . Mobile Library Services for people remote from main library. << /Length 1 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> Once upon a time, Holly mentioned that I had a special formula for determining shelving capacity. Hospitality storage: Tips and best practices. Library of Congress (LC) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) are still in flux. Of course this means a completely full shelf with no room for shifting and browsing. We were literally spilling out of our shelves. In addition, current rules for preferred titles conflict with past LC poli cies for using games as subject headings, and Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC) will be working with LC to harmonize these practices. Create a spreadsheet with each section getting its own line. In my perfect world, shelves 2/3 full would make it easy to browse and to keep tidy.