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LC Announces Additional Study of Bibliographic Record Production

The Library of Congress has retained R2 to research and describe the current "marketplace" for cataloging records. For details about the project, and to offer your opinions and advice, please join our online forum.

Doing What's Obvious: Library Space and the Fat Smoker
(Against the Grain, 21 (1): February 2009 [forthcoming]

"Library after library has sacrificed reader accommodations to the imperatives of shelving." Yet 40% of this material is unused. What stops us from doing what’s obvious?

The Disapproval Plan: Rules-Based Weeding and Storage Decisions
(Against the Grain, 20 (6): December 2008 - January 2009)

Beyond its excellent (if slightly Puritanical-sounding) name, the disapproval plan is one of those ideas whose power seems immediately obvious ...

Weeding: The Time is Now
(Against the Grain, 20 (4): September 2008)

Weeding has been much on our minds lately. In virtually all of the 80+ libraries with which R2 has worked closely, overcrowded stacks and storage facilities pose a significant problem ...