They will be meeting every two weeks through the end of the year and in January will be meeting every week. Their charge is to identify, examine, and sequence the myriad tasks involved in moving collections, services, equipment, furniture, furnishings, and personnel. Beginning in January 1999 there will be regular reports to the university community regarding move preparations and possible effects on patron use of the collections. During the fall semester you may find portions of the collection on the three floors of the round building blocked off. Segments of shelving will periodically be closed to public access as library personnel are bar coding and creating catalog records for materials that will be housed in the Automated Storage and Retrieval System in Lied Library.
Patrons needing materials from the closed areas can have the items retrieved by library staff.
Requests should be submitted to the Circulation Desk . This fall, members of the Interlibrary Loan section will be testing the electronic interlibrary loan module of the library's integrated library system. Assuming the tests are successful, we anticipate that all faculty, staff, and students will be able to submit electronic interlibrary loan requests. There is more information provided below . Another significant project that will begin during the fall is developing the mechanism for direct, unmediated, subsidized document delivery for all faculty.