MAKING ROOM FOR BOOKS

Abstract

For every library, at some time, the question of removing some older books in order to make room for new ones must arise. In a personal library the owner can scrutinize each book and decide how inconvenient it would be to have it stored in a box somewhere rather than available on the shelves. A large library with many users requires some strategy for identifying the books to be scrutinized and perhaps stored; only two possible criteria can really be used, date of publication and use. In the case of periodicals, relegation by date is necessary if runs are to be kept in sequence. We discuss in this paper, therefore, only the problem of relegation of monographs, and restrict ourselves to relegation by use.

Citation

CANE, V.R. (1979), "MAKING ROOM FOR BOOKS", Library Review, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 148-150. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012689