Presented at CONUL conference, May 2018, Galway, Ireland

1. DCU Library's new Request
Collection - incorporation and
collaboration
Michaela Hollywood (Systems Librarian)
Mary Kiely (Cataloguing & Acquisitions Librarian)
Dublin City University

2. Incorporation

3. DCU Library
O’Reilly Library Cregan Library

4. One DCU Library
• One Library Collection
• Four library collections became one library
collection
• One library catalogue
• One Library Service
• Reconfiguration of LMS
• Service review

5. Why did we need a Request
Collection (RQCL)?
• Lack of space
• Summer of 2017 DCU print collections (monographs)
grew by approximately 50%
• Pre incorporation
• DCU Library total collection size 11,485 linear
metres
• Post incorporation
• DCU Library total collection size 19,386 linear
metres

6. How Systems prepared
• Statistics - discussions with Subject specialists
• Soprano web based LMS
• Software Workstations
• Installation of new access and self-issue technologies
and equipment

7. May to September
• Create space and relocate
• Planning, prepare, proceed
• Cross departmental support

8. O’Reilly library
• 47,000 low use
items identified
and selected for
relocation to
RQCL
• 80,000c remaining
ML items RFID
tagged and shelf-
shuffled to
accommodate
Short Loan
• 7,000 items
relocated from
Short Loan

9. Cregan library
• 35,000c MDI and
CICE collections
and integrated into
ML & RQCL
• 782 crates relocated
to RQCL
• Cregan shelf
addition and shelf
shuffle to
accommodate
integrated materials

13. Working on..

14. and on…

16. Request Collection
(RQCL)
• One library, one
collection, one
sequence
• 78,000 items re-
sequenced and
shelved in the
RQCL in 3 weeks
• Print – living
collections