May 28, 2016

Off-Site Storage: “Nova Scotia University Libraries Move to a Books-on-Demand Model”

From The Globe and Mail:

A consortium of the province’s university libraries [Novanet] is pressing ahead with a proposal to craft a central repository that would house about a fifth of their collections, freeing up badly needed space. Most of some two million offloaded books, journals and other holdings would still be accessible through the central bank, but perhaps half a million duplicates would be ditched.

[Clip]

The repository plan is popular among Nova Scotia’s academic librarians, but detractors worry that under its delivery-on-demand system, library users will have a harder time making a surprise find among a sea of shelves.

“What people will tell you we’re losing is the ability for serendipitous discovery while browsing through the stacks, because it’s often the book that you see four books away from the one you were looking for that sparks the idea,” Ms. [Donna] Bourne-Tyson [Dalhousie University’s head librarian] said. But digital software for scrolling through catalogued book covers may offer a solution.

Read the Complete Article

See Also: Nova Scotia University Libraries Discuss Building Central Storage Facility (December 12, 2013)

See Also: List of Novanet Member Libraries

See Also: Take a Look at the New E-Bookshelf From DPLA, Browse/Access More than 1 Million E-Books (Also Available for Harvard Library)

Gary Price About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

Share
http://www.infodocket.com/2013/10/25/off-site-storage-nova-scotia-university-libraries-move-to-a-books-on-demand-model/
www.infodocket.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-22
55237
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:TPKHAMIKES7WUW6KO5UIPBFZGOGDFOZH
<urn:uuid:5f60f0c0-98ae-4d28-8c8e-f4f49601e3d5>
2016-05-28T11:52:10Z
216.70.86.237
sha1:PP4JQC7TEPYHJZIWUL3QM7KNWMGLVDAQ
<urn:uuid:a25a1e86-912c-446c-8938-00b63cf3bb61>
http://www.infodocket.com/2013/10/25/off-site-storage-nova-scotia-university-libraries-move-to-a-books-on-demand-model/
length
response
<urn:uuid:468be83c-3dbf-47e9-b4d1-4ea014856808>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-22
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf