Storage Facility Details

In consultation with the Main Campus Library Committee, the Library Advisory Council, the Provost, and the Main Campus Executive Faculty, the Library investigated several options for off-campus storage and selected the Washington Research Library Consortium's (WRLC) Offsite Storage facility located in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The WRLCstorage facility provides high-density, environmentally controlled, retrievable storage for books, audio-visual or microform media, and archival boxes. In order to store the maximum number of items in the minimum floor area, the facility shelves items by size,
with barcode links to individual titles. The facility consists of 12 rows of 30-foot-high racks containing approximately 9,000 shelves. The storage area is climate-controlled toprovide an optimum environment for books and documents. The WRLC storage facility sends materials requested by 5 p.m. (M-F) to the requesting library the next business day. A small reading room is available at WRLC for onsite review of materials.

More detailed information about the WRLC Offsite Storage facility is available from their website at <http://www.wrlc.org/offsite/>.