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Salvete!<br>
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This is a very interesting approach. My take on it is that it sounds to my public ears very similar to things attempted by academic libraries for off site storage. Off site storage is very space efficient.<br>
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Before you embark, I would counsel you to stick by the old method for popular and highly utilised books so that your Patrons would not be frustrated, nor would your Staff. This would follow Ranganathan's law of saving the time of the user. However, once books have run their course as far as popularity is concerned, this might be a good thing to at least experiment with.<br>
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I would counsel you to do a JSTOR search or maybe even better a Wilson search through LITA or ALISE or something field journaly to get a perspective on this apart from mine own.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Brooke @ Hinsdale MA
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