LIBRARY NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING ACTIVITIES

TREASURE HUNT, ANNEX TOUR ON LIBRARIES' NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL AGENDA

10/2/96

CONTACT: Salinda Arthur, Ohio University, 614/593-9379

ATHENS, Ohio -- Members of the Ohio University Libraries National Advisory Council will be led on a treasure hunt from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Friday (Oct. 4) in Alden Library as part of their annual meeting on the Athens campus.

"This is an effort to help familiarize the council members with the workings of the library," said Salinda Arthur, assistant dean for development for the libraries. Council members will follow a brochure leading them to various departments in the library. They will finish in the Preservation Department on the second floor, where a presentation will be made using books owned by council members, including a family Bible owned by President Robert Glidden and his wife, Ren‚ Glidden, a council member, and a book owned by council member and university Trustee Charlotte Coleman Eufinger.

The council also will tour the Southeast Ohio Regional Library Depository, which serves as an annex to the libraries in a renovated auto dealership building on Columbus Road. The tour will take place Friday between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

The state of Ohio has committed $1.9 million to the refurbishment of the two-story, 32,000-square-foot building. Phases I and II of the project are complete, and Phase III renovations to create storage, equip the second floor and work on the exterior will begin in March 1997. The building currently holds about 95,000 volumes and 2,000 cubic feet of archival records. Book storage areas eventually will hold 900,000 volumes, and records storage will contain more than 20,000 boxes. The Preservation, Microfilming and Scanning departments eventually will move to the annex building to make way for more public areas in Alden Library.

The council will hold its annual meeting at the Glenlaurel Inn in Rockbridge on Thursday evening. Among issues the council will discuss are the status of library endowments, reports on recent visits to Asia, fund-raising activities and Dean of Libraries Hwa-Wei Lee's report on the status of the libraries.

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