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Off-Site Storage Facilites  back

RECAP (Research Collections and Preservation Consortium) provides collaborative off-campus storage and retrieval for collections of Columbia University, Princeton University and The New York Public Library. Included here are long-term storage facilites of academic institutions with programs to address long-term treatment of library collections.

RECAP (Research Collections and Preservation Consortium)
Columbia University, Princeton University and The New York Public Library
http://recap1.princeton.edu/about/general.html

Binghamton University Libraries Remote Storage
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/webdocs/storage.html

Case Western Reserve University Library Storage
http://www.cwru.edu/UL/Service/storage.htm

Cornell Library Annex
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newannex/

Duke University Off-Site Stacks   600,000 in 1998
http://www.lib.duke.edu/lsc/
Very good site
Selection Policies
http://www.lib.duke.edu/lsc/policies.htm
Selection policies for: Brown University, Cornell University, West Virginia University, Yale University
The Harvard Depository
http://hul.harvard.edu/hd/

Johns Hopkins University
http://www.mse.jhu.edu:8001/library/moravia/moravia.htm
Slide show is useful

Northeastern Ohio Cooperative Regional Library Depository
http://web.neoucom.edu/~jscalf/
Slide show is useful

Southeast Ohio Regional Depository
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/circ/annex.htm

Southern Illinois Library
http://www.lib.siu.edu/hpage/access/storage.html
 
University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the University of Guelph Libraries
http://www.tug-libraries.on.ca/info/annex/

University of California Northern Regional Library Facility
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/NRLF/info.html

University of California Southern Regional Library Facility
http://www.srlf.ucla.edu/

University of Michigan Shelving Facility
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/services/buhr.html

University of South Carolina Library Annex and Conservation Facility
http://www.sc.edu/library/annex.html

University of Texas at Austin Library Storage Facility   1.6 million volumes
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Exhibits/preserve/lsf.html

Virginia Tech University Libraries Storage Facility - 750,000 volumes
http://www.lib.vt.edu/services/circ-reserve/storage.html

Washington Research Library Consortium Offsite Storage -
http://www.wrlc.org/offsite.htm

West Virginia University Book Depository - 1 million volumes
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/offsite/index.htm
Several slide shows

Yale University Library Shelving Facility - 157,000 volumes per year
http://www.library.yale.edu/Administration/Shelving/ocs.html
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