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For months, ZSR staff have been strategically moving lower-use journals to a new, state-of-the-art, off-site storage building. The facility, located on 30th Street just past the Wake Forest Baseball Park, will hold approximately 200,000 volumes. The first stage of the relocation project involved about 100,000 journal volumes formerly housed in a leased commercial space. As previously announced, the second stage, concluding now, entails moving journal volumes published before 2001 from ZSR.

Faculty who have used off-site journals in the past will notice service improvements beginning in June. Instead of delivering entire journal volumes, staff will scan and deliver articles electronically within a few business hours of your request. The facility will operate Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and consultation space will be available for faculty who wish to peruse entire volumes.

The advent of the storage facility frees up room in the ZSR building – areas never intended as book storage space in the first place. This summer, construction will begin on a project to convert Room 403 to a 120-seat auditorium and Media Center. The Media Center will hold the DVD collection in open shelves for easier access and browsing. Look forward to a grand re-opening of this space in the fall.