Jane and others,
We are brand new to this situation and only for bound journals. At the beginning of the month, we moved about 40,000 bound journal volumes into storage (about 1 1/2 miles away) so that we could make swing space for converting our entire collection from Dewey to LC classification over the next several months.
We decided to set up our storage location with a workstation including a sophisticated scanner to scan articles there onsite that are then delivered to requestors online. Any requests are fulfilled once a day. Requests could be for an individual article or for a whole bound volume or multiple volumes, if need be.
It’s too soon to tell whether our setup and process will be sufficient for researchers’ needs. As of a few weeks ago, we’d only received a handful of article requests, but this is all new and it’s still at the beginning of the Spring semester.
Looking forward to reading other responses, especially from those with more experience.
Steve
Steve Oberg
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On Jan 30, 2019, at 4:59 PM, Jane Marie Pinzino <colldv_at_lists.ala.org<mailto:colldv_at_lists.ala.org>> wrote:
Greetings colleagues,
Here at Tulane we continue to move print materials from the main library into off-site storage, as most if not all research libraries are obliged to do.
* I am wondering how research and researchers at your institution, particularly for the Humanities, are impacted by the physical distancing of print materials, particularly monographs.
* What is the turnaround time for obtaining an off-site item?
* Do scholars indeed receive what they need "just in time" to support their research process?
* Do scholars tend not to request an item because it is too much trouble, or the turnaround time is too long?
Thank you,
Jane M. Pinzino
Coordinator for Scholarly Resources for the Humanities
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Tulane University
7001 Freret St.
New Orleans, LA 70118
Received on Wed Jan 30 2019 - 20:23:50 EST