[Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

[Diane Disbro]

Missouri Evergreen is in the same situation as Bibliomation. Over a
thousand shelving locations for sixty-five libraries. Each member library
creates its own shelving locations. Reporting circulation by target
audience.to the State Library each year is a .... challenge.

Pros:
Each library can do what they think is best for their library. Some
libraries use neighborhoods (book store model) and others use traditional
shelving protocols. Some have separate large print sections and some don't.

Cons:
Other libraries don't know what the shelving locations describe. A shelving
location of "Sunshine Superman" means something to the owning library but
nothing to me. Will something in that location be appropriate for my patron?
The State Library report has a margin of error (guess work). Is Sunshine
Superman adult, teen, or children?

Good luck. If you tame the beast, share your plan.

Diane Disbro
Pronouns: she/her
Circulation and Special Projects Coordinator
Scenic Regional Library
251 Union Plaza Drive
Union, MO 63084
(636) 583-0652 ext  110
ddisbro at scenicregional.org



On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 2:43 PM Terran McCanna via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> We give permissions to designated staff at each library system to manage
> their own shelving locations and they can name them whatever makes sense
> for the patrons in that building.
>
> We've found that it works best to have the shelving locations set at the
> branch level. If you do this, the library can control the settings for a
> very specific location. For example, if there needs to be a building repair
> done in the YA FICTION section at one branch, the shelving location can be
> temporarily made non-OPAC visible and non-holdable without affecting the
> rest of the branch or affecting any other branches that use the same
> shelving location name.
>
> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 3:08 PM Olivia Scully via Evergreen-general <
> evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We've been having some internal discussions around handling an
>> increasingly large number of shelving locations across our consortium (over
>> 1300 now), and wanted to ask you all for your thoughts & perspective.
>>
>> How do you all handle shelving locations? Do you have a set standardized
>> list/a list of set options for libraries to choose from? Do you add new
>> location names according to library request? Other ways you might handle
>> locations?
>>
>> And what are the pros & cons of handling things that way vs. other ways?
>>
>> Any thoughts you can share would be very appreciated!!
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Olivia
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