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

[Murphy, Benjamin]

We have a standardized list of shared consortium-wide shelving locations and a general convention for naming them. https://nccardinalsupport.org/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=99

We try to avoid adding system level shelving locations, but if there is a reason to do so, we will. Every few years we'll see if several instances of a shelving location are in use in different systems and consolidate it into a shared shelving location.

Our ~170 shelving locations were hard fought. At one point we had more like 2500 with various naming structures, capitalization and punctuation and we did a project to tighten it up.

As Diane mentioned, doing our Public Library Statistics centrally every year was a headache and with resource sharing you can get some unexpected behavior if your policies are set up for a defined set of shelving locations (like fine free for juvenile shelving locations) and you're getting materials from elsewhere that aren't your shelving locations.

Benjamin Murphy
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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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