NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2009-8
"Where books are burnt, in the end people are also burnt."
~ Heinrich Heine
REMODELING TO ENCOURAGE PERIODICAL USE
Under the expert eye of Noel Jones, one of Ramsey Library’s able circulation supervisors, keen minds and strong backs recently completed a no cost rearrangement in the current periodicals area of the main floor to encourage the reading of current magazines and journals. The project consolidated shelving of the majority of paper periodicals, grouped by subject according to their Library of Congress classification, into an area nearer the windows of the periodicals area in order to create more space for group work and comfortable seating. In addition, the library pulled some of the more popular titles from the single subject grouping and added new titles selected as a result of a student, staff, and faculty survey to create an easily accessible range of popular magazines suitable for browsing. Older titles included in this new grouping include:
American Craft
Ebony
Ecologist
Economist
Harper’s
Mother Jones
Ms.
Newsweek (NOTES FROM RAMSEY hates the new format!)
NYT Book Review
Rolling Stone
Scientific American
Time
U.S. News
Women’s Health
New titles added in response to survey requests include (note: less popular titles in the survey were canceled to allow for the change):
The Believer
Bitch
Bust
Dwell
Make
Men’s Health
Mental Floss
Paste
ReadyMade
Shambala Sun
Spin
Vanity Fair
Veg News
Week
See photos at: https://sites.google.com/a/unca.edu/ramsey-library-pop-periodicals/
Be sure to stop by for a visit!!
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