Finding space for Yale’s volumes
HAMDEN — Of the roughly 12.5 million volumes in Yale’s libraries, approximately 4 million are housed right in the middle of campus, in the lavish Sterling Memorial Library.
Another 3 million or so are three miles away, in a nondescript warehouse here in Hamden.
Aside from library staff, few at Yale have ever been to the decade-old Library Shelving Facility. But LSF was always meant to be more like an unobtrusive waiter than a gaudy architectural marvel. After all, if not for the facility’s 30-foot-high stacks and capacity to hold millions of Yale’s most obscure texts,...
cool article. yale should give tours of LSF to the public.
No one said Yale was getting rid of open stacks. The space simply isn't enough to store all the books, and LSF is serving the purpose by storing books that aren't frequently circulated. Read the story more carefully.
but i don't know how to read!
Nice article, I had no idea there was this shelving space outside of the Yale libraries.
#3: Apparently you had a hard time reading the article until the very end:
"That expense, he added, will keep stacks open to students and faculty for the foreseeable future. While some argue that off-site storage is efficient enough to simply eliminate all patron browsing, Schneiter and Nitecki both said the art of, as Nitecki put it, “browsing for that one special book” will likely never be lost."
if yale gets rid of open stacks, IT WILL BE A TRAGEDY.