What's Moving

Collection relocation

The Library has used the following guidelines in determining which material will be relocated to the Repository:

1. Print serials published prior to 1990;
2. Print serials published post-1989 which are duplicated online; and
3. Lesser-used formed monograph collections.

The criteria for determining the lesser-used formed monograph collections are largely the same for each Library location. Factors taken into account include the following:

1. Amount of serial and monograph (or non-serial) material needing to be withdrawn from each Library location;
2. Usage data taken from the Library Management System;
3. Teaching and course requirements;
4. Duplication of material;
5. Online availability of equivalent material including official documents, UN and ABS material;
6. Knowledge of in-house use within each Library location including re-shelving patterns; and
7. Known academic plans for courses to use material which had previously been less used or unused.

The table below sets out the estimated linear metres of material to be relocated.

Note: All figures are in linear metres. The timetable for relocating material is currently being developed. It will be made available via the website shortly. Material from the W K Hancock Building will be relocated in the first instance and this will start in the week beginning 6 August 2007.

Re-spacing the collection

As material is relocated from a Library location on campus, the remaining collection in that location will be re-spaced to reduce shelf occupancy to about 75% and to allow for the provision of additional flexible learning space. A collection re-spacing plan will be developed for each Library location prior to the removal of material.

At this stage, it has been agreed that the collection in the W K Hancock Building will occupy the Basement and part of Level 1 in Hancock West.