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Tip Of The Iceberg, Part 1: Choosing What Shows, Karen Kohn
Tip Of The Iceberg, Part 1: Choosing What Shows, Karen Kohn
Charleston Library Conference
In the summer of 2019, Temple University’s main library relocated to a new building, in which most of the 1.3 million-item main stacks collection resides in an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), and a small portion in open stacks. The open stacks, or browsing collection, includes highly circulating items, new books, and materials with a particular need for browsing. Highly-circulating items were identified by dividing the total number of loans by the number of years the library had owned the book. Materials with a particular need for browsing, generally those with significant visual components such as art and music …