Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

Good Afternoon Olivia, Some consortia have a standardized naming convention that all member libraries must try to fold into - but the locations themselves remain built at the system / branch levels. There will, of course, be libraries that don't use certain locations and some that still need

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

Thanks, folks, for your input on this! It's definitely helpful to see how everyone's handling things a bit differently depending on library needs. If anyone else has other thoughts, ideas, etc, about shelving locations - please chime in! It's really good food for thought. Thanks again! --

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

We went the other way, we have 2 shelving locations. Main and New. So we basically don't use them. We float everything between our 23 branches and LINK Sites(small sites open less than 10 hours a week). So dealing with floating with different shelving locations from one location to another

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

:15 PM To: Evergreen Discussion Group<mailto:evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org> Cc: Diane Disbro<mailto:ddis...@scenicregional.org> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names? Missouri Evergreen is in the same situation as Bibliomation. Over a thousand shelving l

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

Missouri Evergreen is in the same situation as Bibliomation. Over a thousand shelving locations for sixty-five libraries. Each member library creates its own shelving locations. Reporting circulation by target audience.to the State Library each year is a challenge. Pros: Each library can do

Re: [Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

We give permissions to designated staff at each library system to manage their own shelving locations and they can name them whatever makes sense for the patrons in that building. We've found that it works best to have the shelving locations set at the branch level. If you do this, the library

[Evergreen-general] Ways to handle shelving location names?

Hi everyone, We've been having some internal discussions around handling an increasingly large number of shelving locations across our consortium (over 1300 now), and wanted to ask you all for your thoughts & perspective. How do you all handle shelving locations? Do you have a set standardized