Adapting Non-Library Facilities for Periodical Collections at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Abstract

In order to cope with space limitations and rapidly growing periodicAl collections, Brookhaven National Laboratory Research Library undertook to investigate the use of various "recycled" non-library facilities to be used as a library annex. Several interim solutions are discussed and details of a low-cost use of industrial shelving in a former chapel/theatre are given. Advisory support from plant engineers and architects, as well as from a library user advisory committee, was shown to be essential in arriving at a viable and cost-effective solution to a serious space problem.