# University closes any pigeonhole below Level Four to new post

> A School of Emergent Priorities brochure sets out a five-level maturity model for a council library's holds shelf, and the University adopts the rubric for every pigeonhole and parcel rack on its campuses.

The School of Emergent Priorities has a long interest in how a priority comes to be seen by the person walking past it, and with the release today of "Surname Showing, Spine Out" that interest reaches the holds shelf of a council library. The brochure sets out a five-level maturity model, from Loose to Self-Collecting, drawn from the judgement a circulation officer already makes at the doorway, and invites any branch to be scored against it.

The University is proud to take the rubric up for itself. Every pigeonhole and parcel rack on its campuses will be scored against the circulation officer's levels as written, and a pigeonhole that falls below Level Four will be closed to new post until it is rescored. No pigeonhole will be scored above Level Four, and the score is not open to appeal.

> We would be glad to hear from any branch that finds its shelf sitting a level above or below where the model has put it.
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> --- Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Emergent Priorities

The brochure carries the work of the circulation desk into a shared vocabulary of presentation, sequence and handover, and sets that vocabulary beside the University's own mail rooms and corridors. Dr Ronja Oyelaran, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Convenor of the Strategic Drift Survey, said the model "gives a branch a way to say what its order is for." Dr Anouk Mensah, Postdoctoral Fellow, contributed to the brochure's account of the first two levels.

The full brochure is available from the University's research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.nyi4fb.