Compact Shelving
Posted by Dan Wilson on November 28, 2006
As the need for space becomes more pressing, many of us are discussing alternative ways to use compact shelving. While compact shelving was once the location of choice for low-use items, such as older journals, it has become prime real estate as more sources are available online in full text, and collections are being weeded. During the summer of 2005, the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library moved its entire book collection to compact shelving (see photo below) in order to create space for expanded group study rooms. In retrospect, we have found that we anticipated more problems than we actually had. The book collection has been in compact shelving now for over 15 months and we have seen little impact of this move on usage statistics and user access.
Have you incorporated compact shelving in redesigning space in your library?
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