Last modified: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
IU's Auxiliary Library Facility to celebrate expansion Nov. 3
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 2, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Media are invited to attend a reception from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, for the grand opening of the extension to Indiana University's Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility at 851 N. Range Road in Bloomington.
Photo by Aaron Bernstein
An ALF employee organizes film spools in the new section of the building.
The Auxiliary Library Facility is a high-density shelving facility for IU Bloomington Libraries books, manuscripts and rare film collections. It provides low-cost housing with conservation-level environmental controls for library materials.
With the new extension, the facility now has the capacity to store between 5 and 6 million items within 583,000 cubic feet of space.
For more information, contact Vaughn Nuest at 812-856-0832 and vnuest@indiana.edu.
