The Dana Porter Library to Close Its Micro Desk Permanently

When you hear “micro desk” do you picture a tiny little desk? If so, you’re probably not alone. The Library’s “micro desk” is actually a public service desk on the 1st floor of the Dana Porter Library where staff sign out “controlled access” materials and provide support to students and researchers using the microfilm and fiche. In response to a significant decline in the need to support researchers (due in large part to the Library’s amazing new micro scanners), the Library will be permanently closing this desk at the end of this term.

The Library will provide service from the Circulation desk, as it does already on evenings and weekends. In addition:

Controlled access items that are highly-used will be moved to shelves behind the Circulation Desk. Other controlled access items will be retrieved within a few minutes of a request
Some items may be transferred to the book stacks or the Annex
An extra staff member will be scheduled at the Circulation desk for peak periods of the day for the first three weeks of fall and winter term, the time that statistics show is when the most support is required for using micro materials
When advance notice is provided regarding class projects that use the micro collections, staff will be scheduled to provide support. Librarians will work with faculty to obtain advance notice.

For more information, contact:

Head, Circulation Services
Ext. 35326

, Communications and Liaison Librarian
, Co-ordinator, Library Communications and Web Management
, Assistant, Library Communications and Web Development

March 28, 2013

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March 28, 2013
Vol. 13, No. 3

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