Seminar on preparing for and using a remote storage facility
The session was for high-level staff in libraries that were in the process of storing (part of) their collections in a remote facility.
Hourly Schedule
Day 1
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Participants introduce themselves
- 14:30 - 15:00
- Introduction: Dr Niederer with a reflection on Why consider remote storage?
- 15:15 - 16:00
- Planning for it - Specifications for the building, climate control or not, etc
- Introducing the topic: Foekje Boersma, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands slides, also raising the issue of passive climate control. In the seminar, she worked with the participants to survey types of storage currently in use, and planned for.
- 16:00 - 16:45
- Collaborative storage, potential partners, funding, agreements, etc.
- Introducing the topic: Hilde Van Kiel, KU Leuven Libraries slides, including a few words on the Heritage Lab, planned for thirteen Flemish heritage institutions
- 16:45 - 17:30
- Criteria for deciding what goes in and what doesn’t, special collections or not?
- Introducing the topic of selection criteria: Ophélie Ramonatxo, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Day 2
- 9:00 - 10:30
- Moving to the remote storage
- Preparations for actual move Introducing the topics of cataloguing, inventory, barcoding etc.: Michael Williams slides and Robin James, Cambridge University Library. The actual move, contractors, unpacking the materials in the new storage area Introducing the topic: Ulrich Niederer
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Speakers:
Michael Williams, Toby Kirtley
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Break
- 11:00 - 12:20
- Working with the remote storage in place
- Security issues, e.g. related to transport, drivers/vans, routes, disaster planning Introducing the topic: Jacqueline Lambert, Royal Library, Brussels, will explore the 'what if' hazard analysis model often used in technical/ industrial engineering with the workshop participants 7. Workflows. Getting the items out of storage (and returning them there), and service to reading rooms (+ communicating about this to users) Introducing the topic: Andy Appleyard, British Library
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Speakers:
Andy Appleyard, Jacqueline Lambert
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Conclusions, last questions, and farewells
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Lunch for seminar participants
Michael Williams
Toby Kirtley
Andy Appleyard
Jacqueline Lambert
Date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Expired!
Category
Organizer
Speakers
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Foekje Boersma
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Hilde Van Kiel
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Ophélie Ramonatxo
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Ulrich Niederer
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