Town Hall for Stacks--Level 9--March 25

We are inviting you to a Town Hall on this project and on its impact on your library collections at Emory. The meeting is scheduled for next Thursday, March 25th, at 4PM in the Jones Room in the Woodruff Library. Below is proposed agenda for the meeting:

AGENDA

1. Context for the project

• Growth of MARBL collections and likelihood that a new MARBL facility will not be built in the next 10 years
• Rededication of L9 for MARBL collections

2. Methodology - to achieve the goal of moving 20,000LF of library material to storage library staff will focus on two areas:

• Serials – in particular the print back files for titles that we have in electronic form
• “No use- low use” books, published before 1970

3. Small Group Discussions – Faculty with Subject Liaisons

Most of the meeting will be devoted to faculty meeting with subject librarians to talk about the implications of the project on a given subject. Specifically, we want to talk about changes or modifications we should make in our methodology so that we have in the stacks tower the books and journals that you need and use.

Examples of modifications already in place: For the mathematics collection we have already increased the number of serials going to storage, to create more space in our stacks for print books. For English and American literature we are making a concerted effort to keep collected sets and series together.

4. Next steps

For more information about the project, please go to:

http://web.library.emory.edu/about/collections/collection-projects/stacks-review-project

or http://web.library.emory.edu/blog/major-library-storage-project-2010