Storage Management
This project identifies and shares best practice in library storage by:
- improving the ways in which collections are measured, housed and accessed
- finding solutions to persistent storage issues
- helping libraries plan for new collection storage facilities.
Achievements
- Revised terms of reference for the project group endorsed by NSLA.
- Work plan for 2012-13 endorsed by NSLA.
- Best practice guidelines for planning storage of physical collections.
Working group members
- Kylie Hawkins, National Library of Australia (project manager)
- Lawrence Salter, National Library of Australia (project manager)
- Antoinette Buchanan, Libraries ACT
- Richard Chester, State Library of New South Wales
- Maxine Furness, State Library of South Australia
- Ian Morrison, State Library of Tasmania
- Diana Richards, Northern Territory Library
- Vanessa Ross, State Library of Victoria
- Cath Thomson, State Library of New South Wales
- Helen Thurlow, State Library of Queensland
- Toni Young, State Library of Western Australia
Image: newspaper stacks, National Library of Australia
Project updates
Storage Management: beyond the stacks
21 February 2012
Vanessa Ross, Storage Coordinator at the State Library of Victoria, tells us about the storage challenges facing libraries today, and in the future.