Law Basement Following the withdrawal of items from the Law Basement staff have been shuffling books in order to create clear blocks of space so that Central items can be transferred. It was decided that it did not warrant shuffling every book in the basement in order to keep items in sequence. The bay ends will be labelled and a Basement map will be created to indicate where collections have been moved to.

Library Warehouse Tim O’Sullivan is supervising staff in the Library Warehouse. Again we are aiming to create one large block of shelving so that items from the Central Library can be cleared. The area of shelving is being achieved by packing up items which are not currently on our database. They will be brought over to Dovedale DA3 and a decision to catalogue or discard will be made in conjunction with the Liaison Librarian team. The location of the annual reports in the warehouse are also being moved to be spread through the collection in to gaps in the shelving (still in the warehouse). This is not an ideal solution but it is a good option for now. The final decision regarding weeding of the annual reports will be made by the end of the year and a new space for the annual reports which are being kept will be created. The other work that is happening in the warehouse is that the 185mm shelving is being replaced with the 225 mm ones. The wider shelves will help improve the stability of the stack. We will also aim to have only 6 shelves instead of 7 per bay in any new areas that are to be shelved.

The physical and mental energy required to move stock from one location to another is huge and every effort is being made to keep the location records correct and not inconvenience staff or library users. If you have any concerns then please get in touch.

Horizon Records Serials As serials have been weeded or sent to CONZUL the records in the catalogue have been edited to reflect this. However, we are not able to edit the records in Horizon yet. UC Finance are requesting depreciation details for all items which have been withdrawn or moved to CONZUL and at this time decisions have not been made regarding how to record the data. When the data for the depreciation has been collated the LSS team will be able update the serial records. When you are working with library users please refer to the data in the catalogue. Any queries please get in touch. If the catalogue indicates ‘item for deletion’ – it means it has been removed from the shelf already.

Joan Simpson
Resource Discovery Team Leader