Dear Colleagues,
Our library is planning a renovation of the entire library to begin in
another year. Post-renovation, we may be offering somewhere between 50-70%
of our current collection onsite and the rest retrieved from an offsite
facility (we do not use offsite storage now). If your library moved
significant percentages of the collection offsite, what criteria did you
use to select what would remain?
One possibility for our renovation includes a section that would include
most of the material that we continue to house onsite, with smaller
shelving areas scattered throughout the remaining library and a percentage
offsite. If you have had a similar experience, what criteria did you use
for allocating materials to the scattered shelving (i.e. was it just
discrete material, like oversized books or the reference collection, etc.
or specific call number ranges)? Has this allocation and the scattered
shelving been difficult to administer (shelving, patrons locating material,
etc.)?
Many thanks for your input,
Laura
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Laura Turner
Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery
Helen K. and James S. Copley Library
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
Phone: (619) 260-2365
lauraturner_at_sandiego.edu
Received on Wed Jun 06 2018 - 13:11:56 EDT