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Hi, everyone: TRU is apparently $91m in the red this year, and is planning to close 64 stores and eliminate almost 2,000 jobs. (URL) Ugh. Well, maybe if they'd hold better clearances...;) best LFB (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) The first sentence says they are closing 64 stores, last sentence says they are opening 100 new stores!?? Yes, better clearances are a must, no matter what, where or when :) Julie (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) The official TRU press release is here ... (URL) not indicate which stores tho. Ray (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Quite right. I just heard on TV about this: they said all about closing stores and firing staff, and in the end they added "TrU management in Portugal stated they intend to open two new stores in 2002, adding to the existing 6". (...) <Sigh!> (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Any info on the "Mission Possible" format they talk about? I don't think I've seen that here in Australia. I'm not sure if TRU Aus is separately owned or not. ROSCO (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) The older TRU layout (in the US) was a lot like a supermarket. A number of parallel aisles, divided by tall wall-like shelving, which made the store feel more like a warehouse and less like a store for children. The newer layout is much more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I have noticed a couple of Australian stores undergo this renovation. In Sydney(AUS), Parramatta, Chatswood and Moore Park have gone from library mode to carousel format. The LEGO section was moved from up against a back wall to a much more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) A few of the stores that I frequent are of a smaller than average square- footage. Perhaps they are to small to convert (as none of them have the new format). Perhaps they are the ones to be axed. Ray (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I've actually seen a couple different formats over the last couple years. A couple years back they seemed to be switching the stores over to a layout based on a large oval around the store. Around the edges of the store the high shelves mostly (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) The new TRU in carousell (here in perth) is in what I assume is this new format. The lego section is much easier to find than the ones in the city and morley. (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I dunno how much time you spend in modern libraries, but from the sound of it, I think TRUs are just catching up with the modern library. The modern library consists of lots of curvy-shaped tables with PCs everywhere with a few carousels of (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU)
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Gosh. From the rant below, you must be almost as old as me. You didn't mention one other feature of the "cybrary" model -- that there are seldom enough computers or terminals to accomodate the same number of researchers as the old books. When the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As a heavy user, the modern library is where it is at. I can now usually download obscure journal papers in seconds rather than waiting a couple of weeks for hard copies to appear (usually it would be a "dud", or I had moved on since then.) I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Good News for us?? (was: Bad news for TRU)
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Question: Can people watch the TRUs that close and see if they can acquire the 'promo' items that might be related to Lego? I'm thinking of the large mini-figs and bricks, if they are in place.... of course, I've only seen these in the updated (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.promo)
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(...) I spoke with a local TRU management-type yesterday. He offered some insight about the "64 stores" number. Supposidly, 37 are KidsRUs, 10 are relo's (stores being closed in one location, to be reopened across town in a better traffic spot), and (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Scott Arthur writes: (snip of message which led to Scott Arthur's response) (...) My experience is that all of this is PARTLY true. On the good side, as Scott suggests, you can often get articles from journals which (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Paul--you may wish to check JSTOR ((URL) if memory serves) for older articles. Your library needs to be a subscriber, and they should have a connection through their Library homepage. There are fewer journals than you'll find in ProQuest, but (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are 100% correct (~ '88 is the best we get). For my field that is not all that much of an issue - but for others it will be important. Indecently, I work quite closely with the facility mangers at the National Archives of Scotland, they (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Register House in 1980-81 and again in 1987-88, trying not to put too much additional wear on documents from this period. Also lots of time nearby at the National Library of Scotland. Of course, troublemakers like me want to ensure that you (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) P.S. Scott, I hope that you meant to say "incidentally!" Not taking indecent liberties with the NAS staff, are we? I suppose that WOULD require working closely. (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The first time I was in the building we work with (the main document repository on the edge of town) we got the grand tour. In the restoration room a guy was restoring the very things you are talking about - the lead on the seals attacks the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Floydian slip… ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: (snip) (...) This is interesting. I've seen lead seals that were cracked, apparently just by rough handling over the last 700 years, but the only problems I've seen with the cords that attach them to (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Scott, is there any reason you continue to quote entire messages in order to reply to a single paragraph? ROSCO Sent to .debate - because there isn't a .off-topic.questions (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Alas for "dead storage". Do less people browse now? There is nothing like flipping through the card catalog just to discover the breadth and depth of what exists. There is nothing like wandering the stacks and discovering that your library posesses (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think the cords I seen were faded red. Th guy called them "papal bulls"? (...) The building is called Thomas Thomson House. It uses a siphonic roof drainage system{1}. We study these things for various reasons, and the facility manger has (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Floydian slips (Re: Modern Libraries (was Re: Bad news for TRU))
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(...) Should be Freudian Slip. I had just been enjoying the Floydian slip web site: (URL) was lucky enough to get Echoes from Santa, and I have been slowly rediscovering my Floyd CD's. Right now, I can’t get past Comfortably Numb on the Pulse album. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Yes : (URL) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I liked RPI's online card catalog. The nicest part was you could log in remotely and use it. It also had an extremely nice search engine, where you could expand and shrink your search. I never tested it for how complete the coverage was, and I (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) quoting what's relevant to the reply and quoting the whole post. ROSCO (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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