Good morning!
If an item is returned to us and no longer fits in the tray it came from, we reassign it to a new tray. The software we use, CaiaSoft, allows us to record the empty space in the original tray. Recording the space in the original tray allows us to go back and backfill the tray.
-Katia
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Katia Strieck
Director, Library Research Annex
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
267-275-5059
kstrieck@upenn.edu------------------------------
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 06, 2023 02:33 PM
From: Cathy Martyniak
Subject: when a book changes size...
All,
Good afternoon. We all know that books sent to us for long term storage can change size, generally after a book comes back from Conservation in a bigger archival housing. I would love to learn how you manage this situation locally, particularly if you work at a Harvard style high density facility. What work flows, tools or policies help you not end up with a bunch of empty spaces all over your stacks.
Thanks,
Cathy
Cathy Martyniak
Chief, Collections Management Division
The Library of Congress