Freehand magazine
An open stack is a user open access magazine for media in a library .
This media inventory is arranged according to certain content and formal criteria and can be viewed by the user. When the media is in the case of lending libraries often to be borrowed stock (as opposed to the reference collection ). The reference inventory is then not placed in the open stacks, but in the reading room .
A major difference for open access is that the shelves are in open stacks significantly closer together or z. B. are designed as mobile shelves , since the room was not originally intended for the residence of users; The other furnishing of the rooms, for example with regard to wall design and floor coverings, is usually purely functional and without any claim to an aesthetic appearance. Open access magazines reflect the trend towards giving users faster access to the holdings and eliminating the traditional three-way division of the library. The savings in (magazine) personnel must also be taken into account here; on the other hand, new costs can arise from the permanent lighting, higher safety requirements or greater energy consumption for air conditioning . The open-access magazine combines the advantages of the open-access installation (direct access to the inventory for the user) with the advantages of the magazine installation (less space required compared to the open-access installation).
Individual evidence
- ^ Gantert, Klaus: Basic librarianship . 9th, completely revised and expanded edition. Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-032145-6 , pp. 257 .