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Journal Titles Recataloged for Consistent Shelving Most journals in Babbidge are shelved alphabetically by title. A few, however, reflect outdated cataloging rules and are shelved by the name of the publishing society (e.g., American Chemical Society), causing confusion for users and staff alike. Forty nine of the most frequently consulted titles in this group have been recataloged and reshelved under title. Several major titles included.
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Journal of the Chemical Society. Faraday transactions
- Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
Cross-reference blocks for previous shelving entries and for common title variants (e.g., from PMLA to Publications of the Modern Language Association) have been placed on the shelves to alert users accustomed to the former entries. We made these changes to help users who do not consult the catalog before going to the journal stacks. (This is also one of our reasons for maintaining an alphabetic arrangement by title rather than an by Library of Congress classification.) We recommend using the catalog to check bibliographic entries and holdings, but we supplement it with other aids for using the collections. Look for signs on Level 3 that connect print titles with their electronic versions. Pre-1960 Journal Volumes Moved to Level A Journals dated 1940 through 1959 have been moved to Level A, which now holds all volumes before 1960. Level 3 houses all issues, bound and unbound, of journal titles 1960 through the present. This move has created space for a growing collection and will make the collection easier to use. Send your suggestions for additional improvements to the Babbidge journal collections to: Jeanne Gavin, collections management librarian, 860-486-6688 or jgavin@lib.uconn.edu.
New CT Publications Receive Library of Congress Classification All newly received Connecticut documents are being classified in the Library of Congress (LC) system. They are shelved in the Level B reading room, adjacent to earlier CT documents classified in the "Swank" system. Catalogers will undertake a project in the next few months to re-classify and re-mark larger serial and monographic sets, resulting in about 50% of the CT collection being classed in LC. Many older CT documents were never cataloged at all. It will require a retrospective cataloging project to complete the conversion of the collection to LC. Raynard Swank invented his "Swank" system to organize an uncataloged collection. Earlier, it served the useful purpose of organizing uncataloged documents on the shelves. Now, however, CT documents are cataloged. The Swank system is difficult and time-consuming to apply, and its use requires special handling. The Library of Congress system is used for virtually all other library materials and, in contrast to the Swank system, can be applied by any member of the cataloging staff.
New Document Delivery Homepage Makes It Easy The new Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan homepage is up and running, as is our newly enhanced DD/ILL web request interface. Visit it at: /docdel/Web request interface. Contact Joseph Natale, document delivery/shared resources librarian, for more information: jnatale@lib.uconn.edu; 486-3107. Electronic Course Reserve Electronic Course Reserve (ECR), the library service that allows students to access course-related journal articles and book chapters on the web continues to receive raves from students and faculty. During the spring semester, 132 courses took advantage of ECR, a 51% increase over spring 1998.
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