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Reserve/
Current Periodicals Room
Housed in the former Education-Psychology
area, this collection includes reserve books,
current periodicals, the Juvenile Colllection,
and the Curriculum Collection.
Reserve Books
These are usually books or journal articles
which are required reading for University
classes. Because of the heavy demand for
these materials, they may be charged out only
for short periods of time (two hours, one day,
or two days). Most reserve materials will be on
open shelves, so you will be able to get what
you want directly from the shelves and use it in
the Reserve/Current Periodicals Room. You
need to charge out material only if you want to
use it outside the Reserve/Current Periodical
Room. Please be considerate of others' needs
when using reserve materials; you may need to
share materials which are in great demand.
Materials currently in the Reserve Collection
are listed on special microfiche. Listings are by
author, call number, and course for which an
item was put on reserve. These microfiche lists
are available in the Reserve/Current
Periodicals Room, at the Circulation Desk, and
at all microfiche catalog locations.
Current Periodicals
Finding a periodical in the Main Library should
be easier under the new system. All periodicals
(also called magazines or journals) which
come to the Library unbound will go to the
Reserve/Current Periodicals Room. There
they will be shelved in call number order. To
help you find a periodical quickly, there is a list
of titles in alphabetical order which provides
each periodical's call number. This periodicals
holding list also is available at the reference
desk and at other locations throughout the
Main Library and at the branch libraries.
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When a year’s issues of a periodical shelved in
the Main Library have been received, the
separate issues usually will be bound together
into a volume and reshelved in the book stacks
upstairs. NO PERIODICALS, BOUND OR
UNBOUND, WILL CIRCULATE OUT OF THE
MAIN LIBRARY. Staff in the Reserve/Current
Periodicals Room will be able to tell you
whether issues you want are in the
Reserve/Current Periodicals Room or upstairs
in the regular stacks.
Juvenile Collection
Juvenile Collection books have been moved
into their own room next to the main
Reserve/Current Periodicals Room. The cozy
atmosphere makes the collection feel more
like the school library the room simulates.
Curriculum Collection
This collection of textbooks, curriculum
guides, and kits for grades K-12 is still in its
previous location, now accessible through the
Reserve/Current Periodicals Room.
Books
Most books and bound periodicals, with only a
few exceptions, are now arranged in straight
call number order. Books classified in the
Library of Congress system (the first line of the
call number is one or two letters) start with A
on the second floor and go straight through Z
on the third floor. Most books classified in the
Dewey system (the first line of the call number
is a number) are shelved in numerical order at
the east end of the third floor. As these Dewey
books are reclassified into the Library of
Congress system, they will be interfiled into the
main collection.
The exceptions to this system are the
Orientalia Collection, shelved at the west end
of the second floor; some Dewey books,
available at the Circulation Desk; reserve
materials, current periodicals, the Juvenile
Collection and the Curriculum Collection,
shelved in the Reserve/Current Periodicals
Room.
Microforms and
Recordings Department
Most of the Library’s microforms (microfilm,
microfiche, microprint, and microcards), along
with viewers and printers, are now kept on the
third floor in the Microforms and Recordings
Department. The Microfiche College Catalog
Collection, ERIC microfiche, P.E. microfiche,
and newspapers on microfilm are among the
materials you will find there.
Recordings are housed in the Douglass Room
on the third floor. These include records,
reel-to-reel tapes, and cassettes. In addition to
commercially-produced recordings, the
Library has recordings of local events such as
University recitals, plays, and lectures.
Newspapers
The Newspaper Reading Room has been
moved to the old Reserve Book Room in the
northeast corner of the Library’s first floor.
Newspapers on microfilm are now in the
Microforms and Recordings Department on
the third floor.
Study Areas
The first floor will be a busy place now that it
holds the Reference Department and the
Reserve/Current Periodicals Section. If you
are looking for a quiet place to study, try the
seating and study areas on the second and
third floors.
Signs
Ever been lost in a subway? Well, the Library
isn’t that bad, but sometimes it can be
confusing. A new sign system is being installed
to help you find your way around the
reorganized Library. Maps of the Library are in
the two entrance corridors. Each floor has
been assigned a color; walls at the floor
entrances, maps, and signs are coded with
that color. Of course, signs can’t provide all
the answers. If you have a question they don’t
answer, please ask a Library staff member for
assistance.
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