From: "John O. Christensen" <JOC_at_mail.lib.byu.edu>
With the increasing number of disks and CD-ROMs in computer science
books we are revising our locked case policy and want some input.
When a book has a CD-ROM or computer disk (or any other media)
accompanying it we put the book and the media together in a "locked
case." The materials can be checked out but we feel that we need to
control their access (rather than put them out in the open stacks)
because of the fragile nature of the media and its susceptibility to
theft. With the flood of such computer science books lately we have
run out of room in our locked case. The solution we have come up
with is to separate the media from the books. We would put the books
in the stacks and the media in our locked case. Each could be
checked out separately or they could be checked out together.
We would like to know what other libraries are doing. How do you
store your CD-ROMs (do you use individual crystal cases for each)?
Do you try to tattle-tape the media? If you do, how does it work?
If you leave the book and media together and just keep it in the
stacks, what problems has that created (if any)? How big of a
library and how big of a university are you (we have close to 30,000
students)? If you do have a locked case, have you come up with a
better name (locked case has such a restrictive sound)?
Thanks for all responses. Please respond to me directly.
John O. Christensen, Physical Sciences Librarian
2402 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
(801)-378-2928 Internet: John_Christensen_at_byu.edu
Received on Thu Jan 09 1997 - 08:21:14 EST