This Space Wanted: How Four Academic Medical Libraries and One Joint Storage Facility Converted Libraries from Materials Warehouses to Usable Spaces

Abstract

Purpose

The use of high-density remote storage facilities helps alleviate competing space needs in academic medical libraries while they continue to support core services and supply service copies of resources.

Methodology/approach

Four academic medical libraries in the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System will highlight their participation in a regional collaborative storage facility using the Resource in Common (RIC) model.

Findings

Results will show how library services and facilities changed since moving some or all of print collections to JLF.

Originality/value

The RIC model has proven to be a success in recovering user space without losing access to resources.

Citation

vanDuinkerken, W., Burford, N., Romano, J., Wayne, R. and Weed, J. (2016), "This Space Wanted: How Four Academic Medical Libraries and One Joint Storage Facility Converted Libraries from Materials Warehouses to Usable Spaces", The Future of Library Space (Advances in Library Administration and Organization, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0732-067120160000036005