10am – Fondren 410
Agenda:
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Staff in the Kelley Center, Technical Services, Shelving and the Library Service Center have had a busy eight months relocating collections in preparation for the upcoming renovation of Fondren’s basement.
LSC staff began pulling nearly 30,000 volumes from the Q-TC call number range in October 2014, allowing Shelving staff to do a quick and effective compaction of these collections. Over 110 SFU were emptied in anticipation of the microfilm collection being relocated to the southwest area of the basement.
Kelley Center staff, working with extensive support from staff in Technical and Research Services, began identifying microfilm (and a modest number of print government documents) for housing off-site. This process resulted in the relocation of over 80,000 reels of microfilm to the LSC, with additional materials withdrawn due to chemical breakdown of the film base (aka the vinegar syndrome).
During this intense process, accessions to the LSC from the Woodson had been on hold, but the flow of archival materials from Fondren to LSC has resumed. With all of this activity, it is not surprising that the LSC celebrated a specific milestone: in February 2014, the LSC passed the 1 million collection items count – the off-site collection now stands at nearly 1,100,000.