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Background

Share With Your Friends – Resources in CommonDana Whitmire, MSLS

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Future Plans/Results

Timeline

References

1. Joint Library Facility. (2014). Retrieved April 2, 2014, from http://library.tamu.edu/joint-library-facility/

2. Alexrk2. (2009). USA Texas location map [svg], Retrieved April 2,

2014, from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Texas_location_map.svg

3. Stephenson, L. (May 21, 2013). Texas A&M And University of Texas Systems To Open Joint Library

Facility Friday, TAMU Times. Retrieved April 2, 2014 from http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2013/05/21/texas-

am-and-university-of-texas-systems-to-open-joint-library-facility-friday/

In 2011, the University of Texas and the Texas A&M University

Systems joined together to build the Joint Library Facility (JLF), a

high density storage facility for library materials. The facility was

designed to eliminate duplication among system libraries and to

provide storage space for infrequently used materials and print copies of materials available online.

The fundamental premise for the JLF is the Resource-in-Common

model of shared collections. Once one library deposits a unique

item into the JLF, other libraries that own the unique book or journal volume may withdraw their copy yet still retain the item as

held in their collections. The JLF functions as a fully operational

interlibrary loan lending library.

Location: Texas A&M Riverside CampusBuilding: 18,000 sq. ft.

Holds: one million+ books/journals

Contributors:

• Texas A&M University System – 11 institutions• UT System – 16 institutions

• Compare our list of books and journals for potential storage

with those already posted to JLF site

• Items owned by another library:

• Once titles are transferred and processed into JLF, we

can remove ours• Pull exact volumes (if one is missing in JLF, leave on

shelf)

• Change barcodes; location; etc.

• Update union lists

• Count bound; calculate value of weeded items• Update our list of titles/volumes to offer to JLF

• Items owned by us:

• Create title list

• Transfer union list holdings to JLF

• Suppress items until processed in JLF

• As of April 2014, over 5,000 journal volumes owned by the

UT Health Science Center San Antonio have been weeded.

At this time, we have not shipped any items in our collection.

• The first shipment is scheduled for Fall 2014. Until this time,

we are slowly removing volumes that have already been placed in JLF by other libraries.

• Shelf shifting project planned for summer 2014

• Major weeding/shipment in fall 2014 with another shelf

shifting project following shipment

University of Texas System

Texas A&M System

Process

Criteria for JLF inclusion:

• Title held by at least two libraries

• 20+ years

• Title starts with volume 1