Behind the Scenes at the Hwa-Wei Lee Library Annex
Channel: OhioULibraries
Date: 2022-03-22

This video offers a brief, “behind the scenes” look at the library annex, focusing on the facility, staff, and services offered. The Hwa-Wei Lee Library Annex, located on Columbus Road in Athens, Ohio, is the home of the Southeast Ohio Regional Library Depository, a high density library storage facility for the Ohio University Libraries. The facility currently maintains a collection of over 600,000 items ranging in material type from books and bound journals to VHS tapes and reel to reel film canisters. Materials housed at the annex are those that have relatively low circulation rates, but have been deemed unique enough for preservation. Annex items can be requested on the Library’s online catalog and are delivered daily to Alden Library. The facility also offers document delivery services by which requested articles and passages from print materials are digitally scanned and sent to the requestor. The Hwa Wei Lee Library Annex provides services essential to the operations of a modern research institution.