Library Storage Facilities

Library Storage Facilities
Author: Wyoma van Duinkerken
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780081027547

Library Storage Facilities: From Planning to Construction to Operation examines high-density library storage facilities, considering how such facilities are changing the nature of collection management. The book discusses the types of storage facilities and explores how institutions can collaborate and embrace cost saving options through opening shared off-site storage facilities, addressing common needs, and maximizing value and space in on-campus libraries. Considering a unique partnership between the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System, the book highlights best practice and lessons learned during implementation. Topics covered include storage strategies, geometric efficiency, systems integration, environmental control, and more.

Library Storage Facilities

Library Storage Facilities
Author: Wyoma van Duinkerken
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0081027559

Library Storage Facilities: From Planning to Construction to Operation examines high-density library storage facilities, considering how such facilities are changing the nature of collection management. The book discusses the types of storage facilities and explores how institutions can collaborate and embrace cost saving options through opening shared off-site storage facilities, addressing common needs, and maximizing value and space in on-campus libraries. Considering a unique partnership between the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System, the book highlights best practice and lessons learned during implementation. Topics covered include storage strategies, geometric efficiency, systems integration, environmental control, and more. - Provides insights on the importance of high-density library storage facilities - Lays out the process for funding, planning and building collaborations around storage facilities - Shows how to prepare a storage facility for operation in terms of staffing, workflow and equipment - Considers repurposing existing structures as a way of building a storage facility - Presents how to incorporate a storage facility into services and operations

Library Off-Site Shelving

Library Off-Site Shelving
Author: Danuta A. Nitecki
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1563088851

As libraries strive to maintain collections with limited space, many have turned to high-efficiency, off-site shelving facilities. This work addresses virtually all major issues in planning, building, and operating high-density storage. Using the Harvard Depository model, but applying the issues and activities to other models as well, a host of contributors cover such issues as governance and cost, design and construction, preservation, selection, pre-shelving preparation, systems, access and management, services, and transportation. An essential guide to anyone considering or involved in high efficiency shelving, this book is also a valuable reference.

Preventive Conservation

Preventive Conservation
Author: Lisa Elkin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780997867923

Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care, advancing conservation while at the same time promoting accessibility and use. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage covers the storage of all types of collections, including science, fine and decorative art, history, library, archive, and digital collections. It concentrates on preventive conservation and emphasizes a risk management approach. Reflecting the breadth of its scope, the new book is collaboration between The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections; the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works; the Smithsonian Institution; and the George Washington University Museum Studies Program.

The Future of Library Space

The Future of Library Space
Author: Samantha Schmehl Hines
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-12-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1786352699

This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will focus on the future of library spaces. Libraries are dealing with unprecedented changes on several fronts and these factors understandably impact physical library space. Looking toward the future what changes can we expect to see in how libraries use space?

Library Off-Site Shelving

Library Off-Site Shelving
Author: Danuta A. Nitecki
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313079617

As libraries strive to maintain collections with limited space, many have turned to high-efficiency, off-site shelving facilities. This work addresses virtually all major issues in planning, building, and operating high-density storage. Using the Harvard Depository model, but applying the issues and activities to other models as well, a host of contributors cover such issues as governance and cost, design and construction, preservation, selection, pre-shelving preparation, systems, access and management, services, and transportation. An essential guide to anyone considering or involved in high efficiency shelving, this book is also a valuable reference.

Library as Place

Library as Place
Author: Geoffrey T. Freeman
Publisher: Council on Library & Information Resources
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors an architect, four librarians, and a professor of art history and classics explore these questions this report. The authors challenge the reader to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning, and research in the digital age.

Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations

Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations
Author: Doherty, Brian
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1522503277

A vital component of any academic institution, libraries are held to and expected to maintain certain standards. In order to meet these standards and better accommodate the student and faculty body they serve, many libraries are recognizing the benefit of forging relationships with other professional and academic entities. Space and Organizational Considerations in Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on and methods for utilizing existing spaces within libraries to facilitate collection development in addition to discussions on how on-campus and off-campus partnerships can assist in this endeavor. Focusing on issues related to faculty and researcher collaborations, collection management, and professional development, this book is ideally designed for administrators, librarians, academicians, MLIS students, and information professionals.

Visual Communication

Visual Communication
Author: Paul Martin Lester
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2014
Genre: Visual communication
ISBN: 9781285075846

Visual communication is just as important as verbal communication, if not more so. VISUAL COMMUNICATION: IMAGES WITH MESSAGES, 6E, International Edition shows you how visual perception is used in all forms of communication, whether it's graphic design, photography, television, video, or interactive media. In addition, this 6th edition is presented in full color from cover to cover. And because it's packed with study and review tools, it not only clearly explains the theories you need to know, it helps you prepare for tests and will help you succeed in the class.