Moving Libraries and Archives

A Selected Bibliography

(adapted, expanded, and revised

from ALA Library Fact Sheet Number 14
http://archive.ala.org/library/fact14.html )

Adams, Chris. "A Moving Experience; No Move Will Be Perfect ..." Library Journal 115
(December 1990): 91-92.

Bagley, Elizabeth L. “Re-Building a Learning Community...or What to Do When You

Face a Library Move.” Georgia Library Quarterly 40.1 (Spring 2003): 4-10.

Bayne, Pauline Shaw. "The Do-It Yourself Move for a 1.5 Million-Volume Library."
College and Research Libraries 51.1 (January 1990): 55-67.

Bridges, Elinor F. "Meeting the Challenge: Moving the Small College Library." Georgia
Librarian 27.4 (Winter 1990): 95-98.

Bruns, Adam. “Moving Day: An Exercise in Mind and Matter.” American Libraries 30.4
(Apr. 1999): 48-50.

Bryant, Darcel A. “The Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library: the Howard University
Move Experience.” Journal of the Medical Library Association 92.2 (Apr. 2004): 251-6.

Burkhardt, Joanna M.. “Do's and Don'ts for Moving a Small Academic Library: Fourteen
Helpful Tips.” College & Research Libraries News 59.7 (July/Aug. 1998): 499-503.

Calderhead, Veronica. “An Operations Research Approach to a Chemistry Library

Relocation: Measure Often, Move Once.” Science & Technology Libraries 16.1 (1996):
61-80.

Cash, Derek. “Moving a Library Collection.” Public Library Quarterly 20.4 (2001): 17-
28.

Chepesiuk, Ronald. “An Anatomy of a Move: The Clemson University Library Special
Collections.” Wilson Library Bulletin 65 (June 1991): 32-5.

Clark, Mary S. “Moving.” Virginia Libraries 43 (Jan./Feb./Mar. 1997): 13.

Conant, Barbara M., and Louise W. Diodato. "Moving Library Collections." Collection
Management 12.3/4 (1990): 135-43.

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Dienes, Jennie. “Moving the University of Kansas Map Library.” Information Bulletin
(Western Association of Map Libraries) 27 (Nov. 1995): 16-31.

Dimenstein, Catherine. “Executing a Library Move.” Information Outlook. 8.1 (Jan.

2004): 37-8, 41-2.

Duck, Patricia M.. “’Move’ is not a four-letter word.” College & Undergraduate
Libraries 7.1 (2000): 25-32.

Fitt, Stephen D. "Moving Fully Loaded Stacks Inexpensively" College and Research
Libraries News 50.1 (January 1989): 19-21.

Fowles, Charlotte M. “When Your Mission Changes: Heave Ho! It's Time to Reevaluate
and Move the Collection.” Collection Management 29.1 (2004): 43-55.

Godolphin, Jocelyn. “Moving or Leaving: Defining the Best Partial Collection for a New
Building.” Collection Management 25.3 (2001): 39-52.

Grey, Billie J. "Making Your Move." American Libraries 23.4 (April 1992): 330-31.

Habich, Elizabeth. Moving Library Collections: A Management Handbook. Westport,

CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Hamilton, Patricia J., and Pam Hindman. "Moving a Public Library Collection." Public
Libraries 26.1 (Spring 1987): 4-7.

Hofstetter, Janet. "Best Laid Plans & Pitfalls (Useful Tips for Relocation)." Book Report
11 (January/February 1993): 13-15.

Jefcoate, Graham P. “British Library: New Space for the Incunabula.” Library
Association Record 100.4 (Apr. 1998): 201.

Johnson, Linda B “Moving a Library- Planning is Key.” The Unabashed Librarian 109
(1998): 16-19.

Keck, Bruce Leroy. “Moving Your Library [Experience of the U.S. Geological Survey
Reston Library].” Markham, James W., ed. Preserving the Past, Looking to the Future:
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Assoication of Aquatic
and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. Fort Pierce: FL: IAMSLIC,
1994.

Kellerman, Lydia Suzanne. "Moving Fragile Materials: Shrink-Wrapping at Penn State."

Collection Management 18.1-2 (1993): 117-28.

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Ladley, Barbara. "Questions to Ask...When Choosing a Moving Company." The Bottom
Line 1.4 (1987): 8.

Laffoon, Carolyn J. “Relocating a Science Library: How to Cope with Plans Gone
Awry!” Science & Technology Libraries 12 (Fall 1991): 91-7.

Leach, Bruce A. “A Simple Program Simplifies Moving and Integrating Serial

Collections.” The Serials Librarian 32:3-4 (1997): 93-105.

Lumley, A. “Merging and Moving--The NRI Experience: An Exercise in Library

Integration and Relocation.” Aslib Proceedings 43 (Apr. 1991): 115-32.

Manley, Kathy. “10 Tips for Surviving a Knock-down, Drag-out Media Center
‘Renovation.’" Library Media Connection 21.4 (Jan. 2003): 50-1.

Meltzer, Ellen. "Successfully Moving the Library--Temporarily." College and Research

Libraries News 54.10 (November 1993): 55-60.

Morgan, Jim. “It Came from the Sea: The Chronicle of a Library Move.” American
Libraries 28 (Apr. 1997): 62-4.

Morrow, Mary Frances. "Moving an Archive (Experiences of Ten Institutions)."

American Archivist 53 (Summer 1990): 420-31.

Munro, Sharon. “The Library in Transition: A Moving story.” Feliciter 47.3 (2001):
149-51.

Myers, Charles. "A Mover That Only Moves Libraries." American Libraries 23.4 (April
1992): 332-33.

Newman, John. Moving Archives: The Experiences of Eleven Archivists. Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Nitecki, Danuta. Library Off-Site Shelving: Guide for High-Density Facilities.

Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001.

Oakley, Roxane. “State Library of Ohio Move Highlights: In the Beginning There was
the Building.” Ohio Media Spectrum 52.4 (Winter 2001): 19.

Olsgaard, Jane K.. “Relocation, Reorganization, Retrenchment.” Library Collections,

Acquisitions, and Technical Services 24.3 (Fall 2000): 426-8.

Pilette, Roberta. “Moving Archives: 10th Annual Preservation Conference,

NationalArchives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.” Conservation
Administration News 61 (Apr. 1995): 21-2.

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Robles, Patricia A. "Security Upon Moving into a New Library Building." College and
Research Libraries News 56.7 (July/August 1996): 427-30.

Rochford, Hilary. “From Basement Blues to the Upwardly Mobile Library: Planning a
Move.” The Law Librarian 23 (Mar. 1992): 2-6.

Smallwood, Carol. “A Moving Checklist for Do-It-Yourselfers.” Book Report 16

(Jan./Feb. 1998): 12-13.

Smallwood, Carol. "A Do-it-Yourself, Low-Cost Move to a New Library." Book Report.
13.1 (January/February 1995): 25-7.

Swanepoel, Adriaan J. “Moving a Small Library in an African Setting.” African Journal

of Library, Archives & Information Science 12.1 (Apr. 2002): 27-38.

Travis, Jessica. “Adaptive Reuse of a French Quarter Building: A Change of Address for
the Historic New Orleans Collection.” LLA Bulletin 58 (Spring 1996): 181-5.

Tucker, Dennis C. From Here to There: Moving a Library. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall,
1987.

Tucker, Susan W. “Moving the Middlebury Map Collection.” Information Bulletin

(Western Association of Map Libraries) 32.1 (Nov. 2000): 26-32.

Tunstall, Patricia. “ Let's Move: How to Move your Collections Without Hiring Movers
(and Without Spending a Fortune!).” The Unabashed Librarian 120 (2001): 8-13

Wells, Marianna S. Moving and Reorganizing a Library. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1997.

Wells, Marianna S. and Rosemary Young. "Making Your Move and Getting it Right."
Special Libraries. 85 (Summer 1994): 145-53.

White, Kris A. and Glenn S. Cook. "Round 'em Up, Move 'em Out: How to Move &
Preserve Archive Materials. Conservation Administration News 57 (April 1994): 16-17.

Williams, Joan. “Old Books in New Buildings: The New Library Building at Hereford
Cathedral.” Library History 14.1 (May 1998): 17-22.

Gil Taylor
Museum Support Center Branch Librarian
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
For ReLACT class “Moving Archives: Lessons Learned”
April 20, 2005