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Georgia Tech Remote Storage Library Service Center
Georgia Tech Remote Storage Library Service Center
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| Georgia Tech Remote Storage Library Service Center | |||
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| Description | The Georgia Tech Library and Emory University Libraries operate a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled service facility known as the Library Service Center (LSC). About 95 percent of Georgia Tech’s physical collection is housed in the LSC, freeing up valuable space in the Price Gilbert Library and Crosland buildings for student and faculty use. Students, Faculty, and Staff from both Emory and Georgia Tech are able to use the center. | ||
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| E-mail address: | lsc@library.gatech.edu | ||
| Phone Number: | 404-727-1400 | ||
| Address: | 1260 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30306 United States | ||
| Postal code: | 30306 | ||
| Web site URL: | http://libraryservicecenter.org/ | ||
| Permalink: |
 https://librarytechnology.org/storagefacility/27(Use this link to refer back to this listing.) | ||
| Year opened: | 2016 | ||
| Total Personnel: | |||
| Annual Budget: | |||
| Total Capacity (volumes): | 4,000,000 | ||
| Total Capacity (linear feet): | 514080 | ||
| Building Size (square feet): | |||
| Current volume count: | 2,128,286 | ||
| Technology Systems | |||
| Inventory Management System | CaiaSoft | ||
| Date Implemented | 2019 | ||
| Previous IMS | MEYER Fulfillment | ||
| Operational Details | |||
| Harvard Model? | Does the facility generally follow the "Harvard Model"? | ||
| Materials placed in trays? | Are most materials placed in trays? | ||
| Materials placed on shelves? | Are most materials placed directly onto shelving? | ||
| Shelving Height (max): | 32 | ||
| Movable Shelving? | Does the facility use movable shelving? | ||
| Robotics? | Is robotic equipment used for placement and retrieval? | ||
| Operated lifts? | Are manually driven lifts or used for placement and retrieval? | ||
| Shelved by Call Numbers? | Materials shelved according to library-assigned call numbers? | ||
| Shelved by size? | Materials shelved according to size categories? | ||
| Archival HVAC? | Facility monitors and manages temperature and humidity? | ||
| Target operating temperature: | 50 (Degrees Fahrenheit) | ||
| Target operating humidity: | 35 (Percent) | ||
| In Library? | Is the repository located inside a library? | ||
| Remote? | Is the repository located remotely from the library it serves? | ||
| Max travel distance (miles): | 5 | ||
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