TY - BOOK AU - Bonnie,Andrew AU - Cannon,Catriona Jeanne AU - Cannon,Catríona AU - Heaney,Michael AU - How,Laura AU - Hughes,Michael AU - Kirtley,Toby AU - Legg,James AU - MacDonald,Alasdair AU - Mackay,Donald AU - McAslan,Jonathan AU - Ovenden,Richard AU - Price,Dave AU - Ptak-Danchak,Alena AU - Rodger,Boyd AU - Shaw,James AU - Thomas,Sarah E. AU - Walsh,Cath AU - Williams,Michael TI - Transforming the Bodleian T2 - Current Topics in Library and Information Practice , SN - 9783110289213 AV - Z792.B63 U1 - 027.742574 22/ger PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Saur, KW - Academic libraries KW - England KW - Oxford KW - History KW - Bibliotheksgebäude KW - Bibliothekswissenschaft KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General KW - bisacsh KW - Library science, library buildings N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of illustrations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: Background --; Chapter 2: The Bod Squad --; Chapter 3: Finance --; Chapter 4: The special collections --; Chapter 5: The purchase of electronic journal backfiles --; Chapter 6: The building of the Book Storage Facility --; Chapter 7: Book Storage Facility ingest and retrievals operations --; Chapter 8: ‘And moveth all together, if it move at all’: the Bookmoves Project 2010–2011 --; Chapter 9: Barcoding – the Inventory Control Project --; Chapter 10: The Book Storage Facility Information System --; Chapter 11: Implementation of a new integrated library system --; Chapter 12: Staff relocation --; Chapter 13: The creation of the Weston Library --; Chapter 14: Underground Bookstore and Old Bodleian Access Project --; Chapter 15: Reader services during a time of major changes --; Conclusion --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The transformation of the Bodleian Libraries provides an example of how major libraries can meet twenty-first century challenges: in 2008 it was facing a failed system installation, a failed plan to cope with its storage needs and the threat of losing status as a repository suitable to house important manuscripts. Three years later it had a new state-of-the-art repository already holding 7 million items under full automated control, a new advanced library system, transformed reader spaces and the reconstruction of its major building well under way; This was achieved in record-breaking time without significant interruptions in service UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289398 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110289398 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110289398/original ER -