Chapter 1: Background

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. List of illustrations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1: Background 5
7. Chapter 2: The Bod Squad 23
8. Chapter 3: Finance 35
9. Chapter 4: The special collections 43
10. Chapter 5: The purchase of electronic journal backfiles 61
11. Chapter 6: The building of the Book Storage Facility 67
12. Chapter 7: Book Storage Facility ingest and retrievals operations 83
13. Chapter 8: ‘And moveth all together, if it move at all’: the Bookmoves Project 2010–2011 95
14. Chapter 9: Barcoding – the Inventory Control Project 109
15. Chapter 10: The Book Storage Facility Information System 137
16. Chapter 11: Implementation of a new integrated library system 149
17. Chapter 12: Staff relocation 163
18. Chapter 13: The creation of the Weston Library 175
19. Chapter 14: Underground Bookstore and Old Bodleian Access Project 191
20. Chapter 15: Reader services during a time of major changes 211
21. Conclusion 223
22. Index 225