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This community is totally new to me, I am a metadata librarian at UChicago law library and am thus a lurker here.

Hi, I'm Maggie Halterman-Dess, Library Annex Coordinator at the University of Iowa. The Annex is high-density Harvard-style facility a few miles from campus. I want to learn more about storage and storage preservation from you all, and to share my experiences. We're also part of or considering joining several SPR programs.

Rock chalk Jayhawk! ('90 grad)

Lihong Zhu from Technical Services, Washington State University. I am new on this group.

I should add the I am a cataloguing librarian, preservation and acting collection management and planning librarian here. I helped operationalize our Harvard Storage facility in 2015 and returned last March to help out a colleague who is seconded to other duties

We are appointment-only during "normal times", but myself and the other full-time staff member trade half-days on site. All of our materials come back after being quarantined according to guidance from our lead conservator at the main library. A bigger headache for us has been trying to work out how to move forward with planned digitization projects during the pandemic.

(Both shipping offsite and with contractors from an imaging company onsite)

Tamra Kirk, Cataloger at Mayo Clinic Libraries. We will be undergoing a remodel over the next few years that involves several areas. We have a warehouse that houses books and journals, with a bit of climate control. We also have an historical collection that houses rare books. It does have some climate control in one of it areas, but needs to be upgraded.

More about REALM: https://www.oclc.org/realm/home.html

Hello to all. I’m an architect and excited to participate in this conversation because we see library storage as one of the key components of almost all of our library projects - both public and academic.

Hello. I'm Laura Soito from the University of New Mexico. We are currently working to open a high density storage facility.

I would be curious to hear if people have read and have thoughts to share regarding the opinion piece Chris Cox wrote in the Journal of Higher Ed in June: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/05/academic-libraries-will-change-significant-ways-result-pandemic-opinion

we’ve also used hathi’s ETAS and other services to deliver content electronically whenever possible

We have too

One more big deal cancellation: https://libraries.wm.edu/news/va-libraries

Our special collections department (and university archives) are still sending us lots of material, with even more targeted to go out. Plus that will keep on growing!

We're actually concerned about being able to accommodate planned print moves since SC was not supposed to come out (at time of facility construction)

flex work arrangements post pandemic will do some to open up scarce space for patrons and remaining physical collections, I think

UChicago has the Mansueto library, high density storage underground and under a study space, book retrieval is mostly controlled by robot-arm, but it is getting full.

ftr, about half of our collection overlaps with HathiTrust

One issue on my mind is that with too high a reliance on shared collections, re: print, is that those kinds of decisions have major impacts on publishers bottom lines, which then of course affects their ability to keep producing new materials. Libraries need publishers and publishers need libraries it seems to me. What do folks think about this relationship? Am I making too much of it? thank you

I wonder how much recent and current material are in those collections, vs old stuff, which wouldn’t impact publishers finances in the same way, since it was purchased years or decades ago

We're still wondering how exactly Big Ten's collective collections agreement will work out vis a vis individual libraries. We're already doing SPR with BTAA.

Good points and questions

if you keep it long enough, all marginalia becomes historic record!

That's correct :)

I have taken some great courses on keeping costs of high density storage down. IPI for instance is very helpful.

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Thanks, Jenny. I just joined!

Thank you!

Thank you Jay and everyone, I appreciated this discussion I lurked about.

Thank, you, Jay!

Thanks!