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