This is a response to a reqest at a staff meeting last year. Staff expressed frustration at not being able to return held out archives to their proper locations on the held-out shelves with out running back and forth between the desk and the archives work room to consult the held out report.

Staff requested that held out locations be written on production slips. It seemed an elegant solution which I agreed to. However, on further thought it is a bit impractical. For one thing slips (despite our best intentions) seem to often get seperated from items and for another I often have to change held out locations as archives come and go which would mean a lot of scribbling out and re-writing. I foresee a terrible muddle ensuing, especially during busy times.

In leiu of this I thought that I will simply produce a second copy of the held out report which will be kept at AHO 3d. This is the first shelf labelled ‘copy requests’. Hopefully this means that staff will be able to check the held-out location in situ without having to refer to the report at the desk.

Let me know how it goes.