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Journal Management Initiative: Space Optimization Strategies

Learn how a multi-site service successfully removed print journal shelves, relocated book collections, and kept library services running smoothly. Explore the criteria, timelines, and processes for discarding and disposing of journals. Discover lessons learned for effective space management.

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Journal Management Initiative: Space Optimization Strategies

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  1. Space Crunch: Criteria for the Withdrawal of Print Journals at a Multi-Site Service Jo GardnerDesk Services & Resources ManagerBodleian Health Care Libraries

  2. Preparing for Transformation

  3. What were we preparing for? Cairns LibrarySummer 2012 Knowledge Centre Summer 2012 • Reduce floor space – remove 960 m of journal shelves • Move book collection to temporary location • Move book collection to new location • Keep library service running • Reduce floor space – remove 86 m of journal shelves • Pack books and journals into boxes to move offsite • Unpack books and journals and put in new location • Keep library service running

  4. Removing Journals: Timeline

  5. Removing Journals: The Criteria

  6. ‘Refreshers’ Spreadsheets

  7. Discarding Journals FIRST: • Offer to departments that had donated them • Offer to British Library as part of UKRR Scheme THEN: • Mark remaining earmarked journals with a cross • Stamp “WITHDRAWN” • Arrange collection • Reorganise remaining journals

  8. Disposing Journals • Cross of doom The Cross of Doom

  9. Sending Journals to Swindon • Each issue BARCODED and added to system • Cairns – 166 m, January-June 2011 • Knowledge Centre – 25 m, May-June 2012

  10. Empty shelves

  11. Lessons Learned • Start planning early • Involve staff, define roles • Set mini-goals • Cross of Doom: Obvious, but reversible • Invest in a good vacuum cleaner

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