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Re: Marking Volumes in Compact Shelving Kevin M. Randall 22 Sep 1995 21:53 UTC

>"..............  The idea of putting a call number type label with a cover
>protector on each one of these volumes makes us shudder.  Does anyone have a
>great solution that you have been using and would recommend to us?  Thanks
>in advance--
>
>Kathy Schmidt
>
>Why not use colored dots? They're easily applied and easily read.
>
>*****************************************************************
>David (Dave) Fisher

We used small yellow Dennison dots in our project to move items to "Lower
Level Storage" (we occasionally remarked that we were "going dotty"), and we
soon found that they are definitely NOT permanent.  Sometimes it seems
breathing on a volume would make the dot fall off.  Now I'm seeing volumes
that have labels about 3/4" x 1" that have "LLS" in large black letters;
they're placed above or below the spine label and seem to be working very well.

Kevin M. Randall
Head, Serials Cataloging Section
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, IL   60208-2300

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