Tagging is continuing apace in the Central and EPS libraries.

So much so that the taggers have nearly completed the serials at EPS and will be moving up to tagging some of the monograhs on Level 2 from Tuesday. We have also pretty much completed Levels 8-11 in the Central Library with good progress also being made on Levels 2 and 6. We have hit some difficulties with Level 4, as unavoidable delays in getting this floor carpeted and fitted with new shelving prevent us from tagging and shelving the boxed PM-PQ and T-Z sequence currently stored at Crown.

We have found that it is much quicker for us to tag straight from boxes (at least when the stock has been taken off the shelf and boxed, rather than thrown off the shelves and then boxed which has been a lot more fraught!). Therefore, while we had originally thought we would move to tagging at the Education Library if we hit problems at Central, we have decided to move some of our staff to the Law Library to tag the Commerce Collection in the next week or so before it goes on the shelves. It is currently stored at Crown and has to be unpacked and unloaded onto Law shelving. It makes sense to tag this collection as it comes out of the boxes, rather than off the shelves at a later date, so as to avoid doublehandling these books (47,000 items). While we are there we will also tag other Law items and Centrals 3day loan collection.

Tagging will continue in Central as well – on levels 6, 4, 3 and 2. We can tag and shelve the P-PL collection on the remaining shelving on Level 4. We will tag the stock on the other floors and return it to its current shelving in order to tag as much of the collection as we can before the semester starts.

Fiona T