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Unit 13: Storage and Maintenance Section

500 - 599 Science includes mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology. Notes
600 - 699 Useful Arts/Technology includes farming, cooking, sewing, nursing, engineer-
ing, radio, television, gardening, industries, and inventions.
700 - 799 Fine Arts/Arts includes music, painting, drawing, acting, photography, games,
sports, and amusements.

800 - 899 Literature

810 American literature
811 poetry
812 drama
813 fiction
814 essays
815 speeches
816 letters
817 satire and humor
818 miscellany
819 Canadian-English literature
820 English literature
830 German literature
840 French literature
850 Italian literature
860 Spanish literature
870 Latin literature (classical)
880 Greek literature (classical)
890 other literatures
900 - 999 History includes travel, geography, and biography.

13.2 Stack Maintenance
The stacks maintenance unit is responsible for shelving newly received material in the
Perkins stacks collection; re-shelving material after it has been returned by borrowers or
used in-house; re-shelving materials returned from repair or the bindery; shifting books
and journals within the stacks to make the best use of shelf space, and keeping items in call
number order.
In addition to items returned from Circulation, each day the Stacks Maintenance unit picks
up materials that have been taken from the shelves and left around the library. Staff and
student assistants return these items to their proper shelf locations.
On average arrange 4700 items in shelve each week. Any item removed from the shelf and
used for whatever reason inside the library is also returned to our sorting area.
To help us keep books in order, are not in use, but instead return them to the Perkins Circulation
Desk, the Bo stock Help Desk or place them on the shelves in the stacks designated for re-shelving.
Our goal is a 24 hour turnaround time for shelving anything that comes to the sorting area. Since
we spend a lot of time in the stacks, we are a good resource to help you locate something you’re
looking for but can’t find.

Locating Materials in the Stacks

Book Location Chart to determine where call number ranges are shelved. At various locations
throughout the library, and at every elevator, are signs that show a breakdown of call numbers for
each floor. Staffs are available to help you if you need assistance in finding an item you are looking

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