Last Modified

• February 28, 2019

Creator

• Peper, Michael T.
  • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science

Abstract

• Remote storage has become an increasingly popular response to the overcrowding of open-stack areas in academic libraries. While many institutions have chosen this option and there has been much discussion about administration of such facilities, its impact on patrons is still unclear. Some potential user limitations of remote storage considered by this study are delayed retrieval, loss of browsability, and the barrier of making a retrieval request. The current study was conducted at the Chemistry and Art Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It observed the use of materials that had been selected for transfer to remote storage, where half of these selected materials were transferred to remote storage and the other half remained on open library stacks. After an average of approximately two months of observation, none of the selected books had circulated, suggesting that their selection for remote storage was appropriate.

Date of publication

• April 2008

Subject

• College and university libraries--Space problems
• Storage of books, periodicals, etc.
• Use studies--College and university libraries

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.17615/4bhr-wa56

Resource type

• Masters Paper

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Advisor

• Moran, Barbara

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language

• English

Extent

• 41 p.

Access

• Open access

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