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CORE interest group week: Storage topic brain storming

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Nov 25, 2024 12:01 PM
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Storage folks, Good afternoon from Cathy Martyniak (LC) and Amy Boucher (Harvard), co-chairs of the ALA CORE Library storage interest group. We are sending out this email asking folks to let us know what topics might be good to hear about virtually this March during CORE interest group week. ...

ALA Annual 2025 program on high density facility disasters - call for participants

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Aug 20, 2024 03:03 PM
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Dear Storage folks, Will you be in Philadelphia next summer at the ALA Annual meeting? Do you work at or with collections at high density facilities? Ever had an emergency there? Care to share your knowledge?? Please see blurb below from my LC colleague Carrie Beyer, a co-chair of the ALA CORE ...

FW: CORE Storage Meeting in San Diego - Slide deck to forward Attachments

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jul 08, 2024 01:51 PM
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FW: CORE Storage Meeting in San Diego - Slide deck to forward

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jul 08, 2024 01:51 PM
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Hello all, I am forwarding this slide deck out as a favor for Aaron. His presentation, and the Q&A, went really well. Thanks, Cathy __________________________________________________________________________________ All, It was great to see everyone ...

Are you coming to ALA in San Diego?

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jun 25, 2024 03:46 PM
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For those of you who are attending the ALA meeting in San Diego at the end of this week, Please join Amy Boucher and I, co-Chairs of the CORE Library Storage Interest group, for two events related to library storage. On Thursday the 27th, interest group members are touring the UCSD Library ...

CORE Storage Meeting in San Diego - date, time and place

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Apr 30, 2024 11:25 AM
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All, Good morning from DC. If you are attending the American Library Association meeting this summer in San Diego, I encourage you to attend the CORE Library Storage Interest group meeting on Sunday, June 30th from 2:30 to 3:30 at the Hilton, Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom C. Amy Boucher and ...

Update on CORE storage group activities for Annual ALA 2024 meeting

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Apr 08, 2024 09:56 AM
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All, Thanks to Hannah Bare for the gentle kick in the pants I needed. Amy and I are indeed planning a field trip to the UC San Diego storage facility on THURSDAY, June 27th in the morning. Exact details not final but participants will need to get themselves to the campus that morning on their own. ...

Library storage session at the next CORE Interest group week

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Feb 10, 2024 07:34 PM
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All, Please join me, Amy Boucher (Director of Access Services, Harvard), Ian Bogus (Director, ReCAP) and Aaron Krebeck (Director of Library and User Services, WRLC) for an informative session on Library storage on Tuesday, March 5th at 3pm CENTRAL time, presented by the American Library Association ...

when a book changes size...

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Dec 06, 2023 02:49 PM
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All, Good afternoon. We all know that books sent to us for long term storage can change size, generally after a book comes back from Conservation in a bigger archival housing. I would love to learn how you manage this situation locally, particularly if you work at a Harvard style high density facility. ...

October monthly Library storage discussion topic

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Oct 23, 2023 10:04 AM
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All, Thanks for all of you who shared possible future discussion topics. Amy and I have started a list from your recent suggestions and will try to send one out once a month. And, of course, you are always free to send your own question to the list at any time. Jill Friedmann from Northern Arizona ...

various storage topics for Fall 2023

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Oct 03, 2023 01:07 PM
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Dear CORE Library storage List serv members, Good afternoon. Hope all is well with you. We have some updates, comments and questions for you. Amy Boucher and I, as the co-chairs for the ALA CORE Library storage interest group, met recently to start thinking about future plans for the group. We have ...

tablet and separate barcode scanner: how are they configured on the lift

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Sep 05, 2023 05:24 PM
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All, A question for those of you who use a tablet (and possibly a separate barcode scanner?) when you are picking requests in the module/chamber. Do you attach the tablet to the order picker somehow (zip ties?) and it stays attached until you complete the retrieval run and pull it off to charge it ...

Notes from the recent ALA Core Library Storage Interest Group

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jul 03, 2023 11:43 AM
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All, Good afternoon from Washington, DC. As the current Chair of the ALA CORE Library Storage interest group, I wanted to report out on the recent meeting of the group at the Annual meeting in Chicago. 16 people attended the in person meeting on Sunday, July 25th at 2:30. After introductions, there ...

CORE Library storage meeting agenda

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jun 09, 2023 09:49 AM
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CORE Library Storage interest group members, Good morning. This is a reminder that the CORE Library storage interest group will be meeting IN PERSON, in Chicago at the ALA annual conference on Sunday, June 25th. The hour long meeting will start at 2:30 pm and take place in McCormick Place, W183c. ...

Agenda building for CORE Library Storage interest group in Chicago

Posted By Cathy Martyniak May 05, 2023 02:51 PM
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All, The ALA scheduler for the Annual meeting in Chicago this summer is now available on the ALA web site. Please see https://2023alaannual.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?BCFO=&pfp=FullSchedule&fa=&fb=&fc=&fd=&all=1&mode= for more details. The CORE Library Storage Interest group will be held on Sunday, ...

CORE storage meeting time in Chicago SUNDAY 25th 2:30 to3:30

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Jan 10, 2023 02:52 PM
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All, Thanks for everyone who responded to me in December about their potential attendance at the ALA annual meeting in Chicago this coming summer. Many of you let me know that you planned to attend in person. Given that, I went ahead and reserved us a room on Sunday, June 25th from 2:30 to 3:30. ...

RE: Annual meeting attendance

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Dec 14, 2022 02:26 PM
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Thank you!!

Annual meeting attendance

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Dec 14, 2022 09:13 AM
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All, Good morning. Cathy Martyniak here, with her CORE Storage Interest group Chair hat on. Hope you all are doing well. It has been a busy Fall for me so have not been able to do much for this group. I will try to do better in the Spring. The ALA CORE sign up to reserve a meeting rooms for ...

new LC list serv for Facility operators

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Sep 20, 2022 10:57 AM
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Greetings ALA community, We would like to announce a new listserv managed by the Library of Congress, Preservation Directorate for people who operate and manage library, archives, and other collections storage facilities. Storage facilities tend to operate in isolation, and unfortunately there is ...

CORE storage group - new interest group leader

Posted By Cathy Martyniak Sep 19, 2022 08:36 AM
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CORE storage interest group list serv participants, Good morning, My name is Cathy Martyniak and I am the newish leader of this IG. I have been a member of this group since 2010 when it was called the LLAMA storage discussion group and met in person twice a year, at ALA Midwinter and ALA Annual. For ...

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