A Floating Collection at a Large, Multi-Campus, Academic Library

Presented at the 2014 Access Services Conference, November 12-14, 2014, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center and the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia.This session will describe a floating collection operating across 19 campus libraries of a large, multi-campus, academic library. A floating collection is a group of items that are housed at whichever library most recently discharged them. Find out what we learned since the project’s inception in 2009 and successful implementation in 2011, including some unintended benefits and consequences