>From "Ingersoll, Jared" <jared.ingersoll_at_Vanderbilt.Edu>
“Out of Sight, and on Our Minds: Recent developments in shared storage”
ALCTS-Interest Group for Collection Development in Academic Libraries
Saturday, June 25
4:00-5:30pm
Morial Convention Center –Room 353
Speakers:
David Magier, Associate University Librarian for Collection Development, Princeton University
Judith Russell, Dean of Libraries, University of Florida
Space for library collections has been a topic of increasing concern in academic libraries. With shelf-space steady or shrinking in most libraries, local collections continue to grow. Despite the rapid growth of electronic access to library collections, physical collections continue to be demanded and valued by students and researchers. Offsite storage facilities have proliferated in the past two decades, relieving pressure on campus library space efficiently, effectively, and providing enhanced security to materials. Though not without their critics, they are here to stay.
Increasingly, libraries are extending the idea of remote storage into cooperative endeavors aimed at making the best use of these resources. Our speakers will present recent developments in shared storage at ReCAP (a consortium of Columbia, Princeton and NYPL) and by members of the Association of Southeast Research Libraries.
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Jared Ingersoll
Acting Director for Collection Development
The Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
419 21st Ave. South
Nashville, TN 37240
615.322.5507
Received on Sun Jun 19 2011 - 03:01:17 EDT