The entrance to Compact Shelving West is visible from the corridor just east of the lower level lobby. Generally a quarterly journal is considered current for one year, monthly publications are current for six months, and weekly publications are current for two or three months. What is actually on the shelf in Current Periodicals may vary at different times of the year. Most newspaper titles are kept for thirty to sixty days. For some titles, the paper is kept until receipt of microform holdings, e.g. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel .
Specific information is given in the online catalog entry for each title.
Safety features keep aisles open when in use. Instructions for using compact shelving are posted at the point of use. Re-check PantherCat, the online catalog. It is temporarily unavailable. If so, there is at least one issue missing, and some issues are being held until the missing ones can be obtained.