Reference Collection Shifting

With the move of reference material back to the main floor we are still be left with reference material on the floor below.
In order to make finding this material easier and to assist with reshelving we have created two new location codes for Gerstein.

- Lower Reference I which will refer to material in B110 and will appear as LOWER_REF1 where truncation is required in SIRSI
- Lower Reference II. which will refer to material in B112 and will appear as LOWER_REF2 where truncation of the name is required.

It will take quite some time until all the material has it new location applied as it must be done on a title by title basis. I will put out another message when the task has been completed.

Bonnie
Oct. 1, 2008

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey

All staff, As a result of the closure of the Dunlap Observatory Library Gerstein is acquiring some additional astronomy material.
One particularly valuable collection, the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, will arrive in the next few weeks. Please see link below for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Society_-_Palomar_Observatory_Sky_Survey
The glass plate collection and instruments for reading the plates will be placed in a locked room (B126) off the Heritage Wing hall where Dan, Carla & Rea used to have their offices.
Bonnie will arrange for a catalogue entry to be made so staff and patrons can locate them. Thanks.
Sandra - July 25, 2008

Zoology Materials

An explanation about Zoology Materials: "The book material left Zoology a few weeks ago. At that time a global change was done to make all the material coded as monograph, have a location code change to Earth Sciences. However, while this helps out with regard to the items sent to ESCI it does not help with the items sent to Gerstein and UTL at Downsview. It will take several weeks before that material has its location code changed to reflect that of the location now housing the material.

As a general rule of thumb, all items that were duplicates of those held on the St. George campus were sent to UTL at Downsview. With regard to the split between Gerstein and Earth Sciences, it is based on subject matter as expressed through the classification system.

Gerstein will be supporting the new Department of Cell and Systems Biology. We will have all the QHs (except QH540-559), QM and QP materials.

Earth Sciences, desperately in need of a new name, will be supporting the new Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. They will have QH540-559, QL, SH and SK material.

Another way of looking at this is that we deal with animals at the cellular level and Earth Sciences at the whole animal level.

As for the journals they will be handled as follows: July 10/11 the titles for Gerstein will be delivered. There are rougly 44 of these, of which about 24 have ongoing subscriptions.

July 17/18/19/20/21 the titles for Earth Sciences and UTL at Downsview will be delivered. Earth Sciences will be getting roughly 85 titles, of which about 50 have ongoing subscriptions.

Once these deliveries have been completed there will be a global change to Earth Sciences for all Zoology journal titles. There will be a delay, in this case as well, while items for Gerstein and UTL at Downsview are individually changed to refect their actual location. The decision as to location of titles was based on the same criteria as that for the monographs. "

Bonnie Horne 4 July 2006
posted by SL