File 1 - What to do with all that space? : space considerations in Sibley Music Library / Jim Farrington

3 MP4 files

File consists of video recordings of a tour of the Sibley Music Library; a presentation by Jim Farrington, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, on managing user expectations with an abundance of space; and a recording of the presentation discussion, moderated by Jan Guise.

Presentation Abstract
The Sibley Music Library is the largest academic music library in North America. What started out in 1904 as a public music library in Rochester, Sibley merged its 9000 books and scores with the nascent Eastman School of Music in 1921. The following hundred years saw an explosion of acquisitions during which the library outgrew three physical spaces, opening the doors of its latest home in January 1989. The current building has 45,000 square feet of space housing some 650,000 physical items. A survey done in 2000 reported that we had only used about 1/3 of the available shelf space for the circulating collections (a statistic almost unimaginable in most libraries today). The long-standing support of the library from our administration combined with this abundance of shelf space for so much of the collection has lead to interesting collection development decisions with implications for user services.

Also see video of library tour and a recording of the discussion that followed the presentation screening.

Day 1, Session 1