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Dear Colleagues, Yale is looking to move all or part of its library
preservation operations off the central campus and join in a centralized
facility with all the university conservation facilities. We are in
discussions and have just begun the planning process. We don’t
anticipate the facility being ready for 5-7 years. We are very interested in hearing from any of you who have
preservation programs that have either wholly moved off central campus or have
split the preservation operations between different campus locations. We are specifically interested in knowing: --What was moved—the whole program or only parts of
it? --If parts moved which parts and why are they where they
are? --What was the motivating factor for the move? --Are there other parts of the library operation located
near the preservation operations and what are those library operations? --What is the distance between the preservation operation
and your key customers? --If the preservation program was split what is the distance
between the two locations? --How has the move affected your ability—positively
and negatively—to provide preservation services? --Are you using any types of technology to help “span
the distance”—such as web cams? --How are collection materials [general and special] being
moved to the appropriate preservation operation? --How do staff get back and forth? In general, what do you think have been the pluses and
minuses of the new location(s)? Please feel free to include any other thoughts or words of
advice when considering this type of set-up. I will be happy to take comments off the list and then
compile the responses in a more anonymous manner and then post the information
in a more general way to the list. Bobbie Pilette Head, Preservation Dept Yale University Library |