When the library is located in prime real estate: a case study on the loss of space from the Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives.

The Duke University Medical Center Library and Archives is located in the heart of the Duke Medicine campus, surrounded by Duke Hospital, ambulatory clinics, and numerous research facilities. Its location is considered prime real estate, given its adjacency to patient care, research, and educational activities. In 2005, the Duke University Library Space Planning Committee had recommended creating a learning center in the library that would support a variety of educational activities. However, the health system needed to convert the library's top floor into office space to make way for expansion of the hospital and cancer center. The library had only five months to plan the storage and consolidation of its journal and book collections, while working with the facilities design office and architect on the replacement of key user spaces on the top floor. Library staff worked together to develop plans for storing, weeding, and consolidating the collections and provided input into renovation plans for users spaces on its mezzanine level. The library lost 15,238 square feet (29%) of its net assignable square footage and a total of 16,897 (30%) gross square feet. This included 50% of the total space allotted to collections and over 15% of user spaces. The top-floor space now houses offices for Duke Medicine oncology faculty and staff. By storing a large portion of its collection off-site, the library was able to remove more stacks on the remaining stack level and convert them to user spaces, a long-term goal for the library. Additional space on the mezzanine level had to be converted to replace lost study and conference room spaces. While this project did not match the recommended space plans for the library, it underscored the need for the library to think creatively about the future of its facility and to work toward a more cohesive master plan.

Library support for science research and education at Bucknell University: pulling it all together

Based on the Ricker/Witmer survey on Library Support for Science Research and Education, a brief statistical analysis of the Bucknell University community and library support for science and engineering research and education is provided. The position and responsibilities of Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Science and Engineering Resources in the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library are detailed. Throughout the article, I describe the motivation and justification for an integrated university library collection, which serves not only the Science and Engineering faculty and students, but the entire Bucknell University community. The issues of finance and budget, public service, and information access and delivery in relation to a central university library are discussed.

A discourse on natural religion: delivered in the chapel of the University in Cambridge, September 3r, 1795, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Paul Dudley, Esqr

The hand-sewn notebook contains a manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Thomas Barnard on September 3, 1795 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Acts 14-57. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The covers are no longer with the item.

A catalog of the Napoleon library of De Paul university,

Mode of access: Internet.

The library of Harvard university ; descriptive and historical notes.

"Printed from the income of the Richard Manning Hodges fund."

Catalogue of the Transylvania University medical library /

Includes index.

Manual for the classification and cataloging of music scores (1955 revision). The "Vassar-Columbia" classification scheme integrated with the cataloging procedure manual of the Columbia University Music Library,

Mode of access: Internet.

Cataloging and classifying audio-visual materials; a guide to the preparation of films, filmstrips, slides, and records for use in the Materials Center of the School of Library Training and Service, Florida State University.

Mode of access: Internet.

Checklist of selected German pamphlets and booklets of the Weimar and Nazi period in the University of Michigan Library /

The collection is housed in the Rare Book Room of the University Library.

The Annual report of the Librarian of Harvard University : read ... to the Committee of the overseers appointed to visit the library.

Description based on: 15 July, 1864; title from cover.

The Gest Chinese research library at McGill university, Montreal,

Mode of access: Internet.

University of California Central Library Addition, San Diego, California, 1987-1993

[Early Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on tracing paper, 18 x 22 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of California Central Library Addition, San Diego, California, 1987-1993

[Early Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Blue ink sketches on tracing paper, 12x29 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of California Central Library Addition, San Diego, California, 1987-1993

[Early Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Green ink sketches on tracing paper, initialed, 18 x 28 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of California Central Library Addition, San Diego, California, 1987-1993

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper with green, orange and gray marker coloring, 12x32 inches