[PADG:1233] Re: cost of shelving

[<georgeblood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does an "assignable square foot" refer to a linear foot of 12" 
shelving or the foot print of a shelving unit which may have 8-12 
shelves on it?

If the latter, you should move the decimal one place to the left. 

Your calculation appears to take the number of shelves into account 
for the Harvard example (161, stacked upon a square foot of floor), 
but not your own (14, which is a good number per running foot)).

G

Wes Boomgaarden <boomgaarden.1@xxxxxxx> said:

> Cathy and colleagues:
> 
> I'm not certain of the meaning of your phrase "the annual cost of 
> 'shelving a book'", but will take it to mean the cost of storing 
it 
> on library shelves once it is acquired.  With that assumption, and 
> with a good cup of coffee beside me, I offer this approach to cost 
> estimation...
> 
> A very good source is Leighton & Weber's Planning Academic and 
> Research Library Buildings (ALA, 1999, 3rd ed.), a Bible in the 
field 
> of building renovation and construction planning.  Its Chapter 6 
> "Programming Housing the Collections" is excellent in describing 
> space requirements for varied types of analog-format collections, 
> especially its0 section 6.2.
> 
> Armed with that data AND with the specific space costs on your 
local 
> campus or facility, you may be able to estimate a real annualized 
> cost to house a book in a particular building on your campus.
> 
> So, for example, we at Ohio State use "plant operations & 
> maintenance" -- or POM -- cost figures, which are paid by all 
units 
> at this university for the space they occupy.  The cost of POM at 
> this time is $12.36 per assignable square foot (asf) per year, a 
cost 
> that includes a host of costs for lights, energy, maintenance, 
etc.
> 
> If the library facility houses, say, 14 volumes per assignable 
square 
> foot in its conventional-stack book storage areas, the cost per 
year 
> would be about $.88 per volume per year.   If, in contrast, it 
stores 
> 161 volumes / asf in its Harvard-style depository, the cost would 
be 
> a bit less than $.08 per volume per year.
> 
> Cathy, I hope you somehow find this trivia of value.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Wes Boomgaarden
> Ohio State University Libraries
> 
> At 01:26 PM 10/10/2006, you wrote:
> >For those of you PADGers who have your reference hats on this 
fine afternoon,
> >
> >I have been asked to provide annual cost figures for 'shelving a 
> >book'.  Obviously this cost depends greatly on the particulars of 
> >the shelving location, such as open or closed stack, regular or 
high 
> >density, location of the building on or off campus, geographical 
> >location of University (Manhattan vs. Gainesville), as well as 
> >determining if are you worried about overhead and personnel, etc.  
I 
> >have been hunting for one or two key, fairly recent articles on 
the 
> >topic and have been coming up short.  I have several from the 
late 
> >1980's/early 1990's ( Michael Cooper, 'a cost comparison of 
> >alternative book storage facilties', from Library Quarterly v.59, 
> >no.3 1989 and by the same author, 'Sensitivity of book storage 
> >strategy decisions to alternative cost assumptions' Library 
> >Quarterly, v.61 no. 4, 1991) plus the Hain-Teper article from 
2003 
> >in Collection Management v.28, no.4 ('Time and Cost analysis of 
> >preparing and processing materials for off site shelving at the 
UIUC').
> >
> >Other than these three, which are not quite right, I have not 
found 
> >much on the topic.  Anyone out there have any ideas?  I am not 
> >looking for any construction information, or processing into an 
off 
> >site facility, or changing shelving locations in the OPAC, I just 
> >need a plain old discussion of what it takes to keep a book safe 
for a year.
> >
> >I searched the PADG list archives to no avail on this topic.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Cathy
> >
> >Cathleen L. Martyniak
> >Head, Preservation Department
> >Smathers Libraries
> >University of Florida
> >Gainesville, FL 32611
> >352-392-6962 (voice)
> >352-392-6597 (fax)
> >cathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> 



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