Dalli L said:
night. First person to ask for a book will get it, providing we can find
it. Let me know.
Might be worth first taking a look at the booklist on the Web pages to
see if we've got it.
http://www.noseynick.org/
IFIS/
library.html
We have, in the past, demanded some nominal deposit to try to ensure
that the books DO get returned - we don't have the ability to withold
degrees like the college
library does! Up to you whether you take
deposits or just addresses and things I guess.
Oh, whilst we were attempting rather unsucessfully to merge the new
books into the
library over the weekend, we decided it would be more
useful, instead of stacking books like this:
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front
when the books are stacked as above, if a book is on the back row, and
you don't know WHERE on the back row, you basically have to unload
almost the whole of the 2 rows in front. What we decided might be better
was something like this:
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front
IE all books facing the front, seven books across the shelves. They
would need some perfect-sized trays though, so you can drag one column
of books out to get at the books further back. The trays would also need
a fair "edge" on them to keep the books upright, because if they fell
forwards, they would get caught up in the sliding doors and the locking
mechanism.
This way, you'll actually be able to SEE less books, and only the fronts
not the spines, but you'll be able to quickly scan across, and because
they're in alphabetical order, you'll be able to pull out the correct
try and find the book you were looking for. Even if you don't know your
alphabet, it's still bound to be a lot easier than un-stacking 2 entire
rows of books and re-stacking them afterwards.
The disadvantage is that we have to find some trays that are almost the
perfect size - easier said than done.
And before anyone starts complaining, myself, jenny, and chris worked it
all out when we were there WORKING ON THE
LIBRARY on saturday, and you
WOULDN'T lose lots of space by using the trays - the space lost between
rows of books is gained in the extra space IN FRONT that's used (at the
moment we have 3 rows per shelf, but almost space for 4).
Jenny took some measurements - perhaps she's able to tell us what the
perfect size for these trays was?
Nick Waterman, Network Manager, Cimio Ltd.
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